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[Letter from Fanny Halbert - November 27, 1864]

Description: Letter from Fanny Halbert to her husband, dated November 27, 1864. The letter tells of family business and visits from friends, as well as some mention of problems with using Confederate currency. Included with the original letter is a typed transcript.
Date: November 27, 1864
Creator: Halbert, Fanny
Partner: Pearce Museum at Navarro College

Washing Machine.

Description: Patent for a new and improved washing machine. This design has a reversible trough, "having bearings for the detachable rollers and provided with a pair of flat springs affixed rigidly to opposite sides and at opposite ends of the trough, hooked screw-bolts having thumb-screws, and shaft of the main roller" (lines 1-6).
Date: November 15, 1881
Creator: Blake, Llewellyn A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Drag Saw.

Description: Patent for a new and improved drag-saw. This design "consist[s] of a standard, two beams connected to the standard on opposite sides thereof, a crank-shaft held by the standard, suitable drive-gearing for operating the same, a pitman connecting the crank-shaft and the saw, a pendulum attached to the saw and the pitman at one end and to a sliding head-block at the other end, the head-block sliding in the slotted standards and having a rack-bar extended therefrom, a pawl engaging the rack, the op… more
Date: November 3, 1885
Creator: Boston, Arnet P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton and Corn Planter.

Description: Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "the combination of the main wheel and shaft, a dish-shaped disk mounted on the shaft, the inner side of said disk having a series of bolt-heads rigidly secured thereto, the bolts extending inward laterally and being provided with threaded ends, the main wheel being provided with openings for the reception of said bolts ends and the adjusting-nuts on both sides of said wheel" (lines 11-19).
Date: November 30, 1886
Creator: Tyus, Robert M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Blasting Plug.

Description: Patent for a new and improved blasting plug. This design is "to improve the usefulness and efficiency of the device, to render it capable of more general application, to provide a construction whereby a given charge is rendered more powerful and effective, and to provide a divided blasting-plug . . . The invention consists more particularly in a cylindrical blasting-plug divided longitudinally into two separate or independent sections, one of which is formed with a disk-head having a vent orifi… more
Date: November 5, 1889
Creator: Holsey, Julius H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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