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Rotary Engine.

Description: Patent for an improvement in rotary engines, specifically in engines where the piston is operated by direct and expansive force of steam.
Date: December 16, 1902
Creator: Carothers, Samuel Eugene
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insect-Destroying Machine.

Description: Patent for improvements in insect-destroying machines to remove and destroy the boll-weevil of cotton plants by “gathering the branches of the plant into position to be effectively operated upon by a revolving brush which sweeps the weevils from the plant into a box carried by the machine without injury to the cotton plants.” (Lines 25 -30)
Date: April 22, 1902
Creator: Dyer, Charles V.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Julia Augusta Oualline Griffith]

Description: Photograph of Julia Augusta Oualline Griffith as an infant in a wicker high chair. Julia was the mother of Oualline and Ruth Griffith. She was born February 2, 1902, in Keenan, Montgomery County, Texas. She died on January 7, 1972, in Lefors, Gray County, Texas. She is also the maternal grandmother of Sandra Person Wyche.
Date: 1902
Partner: Midwestern State University
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