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Cattle-Guard.

Description: Patent for a simple cattle guard for railroads "which may be applied conveniently and economically to a cattle gap, and which will prevent cattle from getting their legs caught between the sleepers above the gap, which will also prevent cattle from passing over the gap, and which will frighten the cattle from the track" (lines 16-22).
Date: July 18, 1893
Creator: Hills, Lorenzo
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Cattle-Guard.

Description: Patent for a cattle-guard that improves on patents previously granted to the inventor (No. 516,307 and No. 501,785). The improvements include "the provision of a counter balance or lever with a weight slidingly thereon, which can be adjusted so as to better regulate the platform (lines 25-28) and perforated guards, which will not get as damaged by the wind as non-perforated guards. The patent also includes springs under the platform instead of springs under the sills.
Date: September 11, 1894
Creator: Hills, Lorenzo
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Cattle-Guard.

Description: Patent for a cattle-guard that does not let cattle become entangled and killed in the guard, and does not allow cattle to pass over the rails. Cattle also will not get thrown or trip on the guard, and the trains will not be endangered.
Date: March 13, 1894
Creator: Hills, Lorenzo
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[News Script: Truckers]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of the Ohio Highway Patrol who says that windshields of three trucks were shot out on Interstate highway 80 near Youngstown. A Nobel prize winning biologist says that it may unrealistic to believe a massive campaign against cancer can cure the diseases.
Date: January 30, 1974, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Baptist Church, Pittsburg]

Description: Photograph of a large Baptist church, in Pittsburg, Texas. The church, designed by James Edward Flanders, has a large distinctive steeple with a mansard pyramidal roof, with entryways on two sides of the structure. Windows and entryways are built with distinctive pointed arches. The main chapel, which has a high roof, runs perpendicular to a paved road running left to right in the image. Along the road are dozens of people along the sidewalks on the lawn, leaving the church and heading towards … more
Date: unknown
Creator: Lockett, Julian
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Location: 32.996492 -94.966381
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

Hub Ball-Bearing.

Description: Patent for a bearing to be employed in a wheel and axle system. The patented bearing is meant to reduce the usual amount of friction in the system to a minimum.
Date: August 26, 1913
Creator: Price, John W.
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Whiffletree-Hook.

Description: Patent for whiffletree-hook that provides "a novel device of this character in which it is impossible for the trace ring or link to become accidentally detached, but which may be readily removed or disengaged from the hook when desired" (lines 15-20). The invention has a flattened circular plate.
Date: March 26, 1895
Creator: Flatau, Louis S.
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