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Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for a car coupling that is simple and can be inexpensively manufactured. The invention's object is "to provide a link controlling device to be used in coupling cars together where the cars have draw-heads of the same or different heights which will render it unnecessary for a person to go between the cars during the operation" (lines 11-16).
Date: January 30, 1894
Creator: Smart, John W.
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Railway-Tie.

Description: Patent for improvements in tailway-tie by “the provision of a clamping plate terminating at one end in a pair of spaced brackets that extend over the base flange of the rail, the said clamping plate being held in engagement with the base flange of the rail by a pair of spaced lugs formed with the top plate of the tie and which bear against the rear end of the clamping plate. Further, this would give greater strength and stability to the proper by seating the rail flange directly upon the top p… more
Date: January 4, 1910
Creator: Brister, William T.
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[Southwestern Graphite Mine 1]

Description: Photograph of the Southwestern Graphite Mine near Burnet, Texas. There are piles of graphite located in the foreground of the photo and there is plant life growing in the distance.
Date: January 1972
Creator: Streng, Evelyn Fiedler
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Partner: Texas Lutheran University

[Marble Falls Wool Scouring Equipment]

Description: Photograph of large wool scouring equipment from Marble Falls. There are several men standing on and in front of the equipment. The picture was taken at the site of the Walker's Austex Chili Plant in downtown Austin.
Date: January 13, 1941
Creator: Douglass, Neal
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Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[View of Texas Granite Corp]

Description: Photograph of Texas Granite Corp located in Marble Falls, Texas. There are sheets of granite located in the foreground of the photo and there is industrial equipment throughout the surrounding area.
Date: January 1971
Creator: Streng, Evelyn Fiedler
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Partner: Texas Lutheran University
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