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Current-Motor.

Description: Patent for a current motor in which water wheels are employed to drive electric generators. The design provides for pontoons to allow the water wheels to be adjustably supported. Constructed in sections, additional sections can easily be added and bracing is included so that the units can be configured to rise and fall together.
Date: February 15, 1921
Creator: Rebman, Johan J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Animated Sign

Description: Patent for a display apparatus to be implemented as animated advertising signs which successively display different images by controlling the timing of changes in the colors of light used to flood the front and to backlight the display surfaces. The images are created in such a way that certain elements created in certain colors become absorbed or are made invisible when illuminated by certain colors of light. An apparatus controls the cyclical changes of the colored lights used by the sign.
Date: September 5, 1922
Creator: Craig, Richard M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Men by Power Line]

Description: Photograph of three men standing in front of a power line. They are wearing coats varying shades. There is a man on the power line behind them. Back of photo reads, "Morgon, Granaw, Fillingame (1928)".
Date: 1928
Partner: Edison Museum

Electric House Beautiful, Abilene, Texas: Miscellaneous Details

Description: Architectural plan for the "electric house beautiful" in Abilene, Texas. It includes detail of kitchen cupboard, detail of china cabinet in kitchen, detail linen closet in bathroom, detail double hung window frames, elevation basement nook arch, and diagrams of various elevations, sections, details, and full size details.
Date: February 12, 1923
Creator: David S. Castle Co.
Partner: Tittle-Luther/Parkhill, Smith and Cooper, Inc.

Electric House Beautiful, Abilene, Texas: Elevations, Sections, and Details

Description: Architectural plan for the "electric house beautiful" in Abilene, Texas. It includes the rear and front elevations, wall section at line A-A on front elevation, section roof B-B, roof section C-C, detail casement windows of front elevation (half section and section H-H), and detail of front entrance.
Date: February 12, 1923
Creator: David S. Castle Co.
Partner: Tittle-Luther/Parkhill, Smith and Cooper, Inc.
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