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Whitewash

Description: Patent for "improvement in whitewash-paint consists in the use of certain ingredients whereby the same is rendered more permanent or durable and beautiful in color than any other article of the kind hitherto produced" (lines 10-14).
Date: April 9, 1889
Creator: Brizzolari, Davis
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Automatic Railway Signal.

Description: Patent for a new and improved railroad signal. This design, "[w]hen the wheels of a passing train come in contact with the spring and bent end of the lever . . . said end is lowered or depressed, causing the movement in the same direction of the outer end of said lever, which, through the agency of the wire, will cause the ringing or sounding of the gong or bell as the wheels . . . come in contact with the end of the lever. . . .[A]fter the wheels of the last car of a train have passed the poin… more
Date: October 16, 1888
Creator: Ross, Albert James & Darter, John T.
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Corn or Cotton Planter.

Description: Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and efficient adjustable corn or cotton planter. It has a frame, ground-wheel, furrow opening and closing apparatuses, a hopper, seeding devices, a crank-arm, an agitator shift, a set-screw, a crank-pin, and bearings on the sides of the hopper.
Date: December 4, 1894
Creator: Brown, Mathias
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Horse Detacher

Description: Patent for a new and improved horse detacher which allows the driver to unhitch a horse without exiting the carriage or wagon, including specifications and illustrations.
Date: April 1, 1913
Creator: Carter, William Otis
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Plow.

Description: Patent for a new and improved plow. This design "consists in the point made with a land-side, fitting into a rabbet in the land-side of the standard, and made thicker and deeper than said rabbet, so as to project beyond and below said land-side to receive the wear" (para. 5).
Date: December 11, 1877
Creator: Dawson, William Wyatt
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gasolene-Supply-Tank Attachment.

Description: Patent for a gasoline station attachment that monitors the amount of fuel dispersed, dispensing a specific amount of fuel based on coin deposit, and for locking the fueling station.
Date: July 10, 1917
Creator: Malone, Thomas W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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