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Automatic Water Cut-Off

Description: Patent for improvements to automatic water cut-offs adapted to be useful "in the event of the falling of temperature to freezing or any other predetermined degree of automatically cutting off the flow of the water." (Lines 18-22).
Date: November 13, 1917
Creator: Goodridge Wilson B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[News Script: Houston Teachers]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story. 7 thousand teachers are going to vote today on whether or not to strike when the school year begins next week, as they are demanding an 11-thousand dollar a year pay raise across-the-board.
Date: August 13, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Planter.

Description: Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "[t]he combination, in a seed-planter, of a main frame having side beams, the standard secured midway between said beams at their forward ends, and provided at its lower end with a shovel and a presser located immediately in rear of said shovel, the hopper supported on said side beams, and having its planting mechanism arranged to drop the seed directly in the furrow formed by the shovel and presser, [and] wheel journaled in the si… more
Date: October 13, 1885
Creator: Gardner, Robert J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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