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[News Clip: Kids Radio]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: November 1, 1995, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 41 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Bell-Ringer.

Description: Patent for a bell ringer for use in locomotives, with instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 1, 1892
Creator: Baker, John L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for a pin-and-link car-coupling that allows "cars to be readily coupled and uncoupled without going between them, and by which a link may be readily guided into the mouth of a draw-head without necessitating a person going between the cars" (lines 11-16). It also has a durable link lifting or guiding device.
Date: September 1, 1896
Creator: Orr, Thomas J.
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Bicycle Attachment.

Description: Patent for a bicycle attachment that supports the frame and can be used as a "carrier or support for a child, package, a satchel, &c." (Lines 12-13) Illustrations included.
Date: May 1, 1900
Creator: Flinn, William M.
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Boiler Scraper and Cleaner

Description: Patent for a boiler scraper and cleaner. This invention is designed to remove incrustation and sediment that collects on the bottom of boilers. Illustration included.
Date: December 1, 1903
Creator: Miller, Hugh C.
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Bung and Air Connection for Beer-Kegs, &c.

Description: Patent for improvements in bungs and air connections for beer-kegs by using a metallic bung which has an opening (a bung-hole), “and provided atone side with a passage, the passage being interiorly threaded at its outer end, an air-tube provided with a valve and having a swiveled member exteriorly threaded and engaging the threaded portion of the passage, and the cork or stopper arranged within the inner portion of the bung-hole and closing the inner end of the passage.” (Lines 116-123, p. 3) … more
Date: January 1, 1901
Creator: Morawetz, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Beehive

Description: Patent for a beehive. This invention is designed to increase hive production. Illustration included.
Date: November 1, 1904
Creator: Kerr, Oscar F.
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Brush

Description: Patent for improved functions of bath-brushes, with instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 1, 1905
Creator: Williams, Robert E.
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Car-Replacer

Description: Patent for car replacer. It is an improvement to "what is called a 'frog' or a 'shoe'." The invention involves "two frogs or shoes which are used together" and are used "in such a way as to replace a car truck. . ." (Ledbetter)
Date: December 1, 1914
Creator: Ledbetter, Louis H.
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Body-Brace

Description: Patent for a body brace made of wire and padding. One pad rests against the chest and the other rests against the front of the legs. There is a coil mechanism in the center that helps the wearer stand upright.
Date: July 1, 1902
Creator: Russell, Manning W.
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Buckle.

Description: Patent for a "buckle which may be quickly and readily attached to or detached from the straps and which will permit of the ready and rapid adjustment of the straps and at the same time will positively hold the same in their adjusted positions" (lines 13-18).
Date: September 1, 1903
Creator: Pool, Robert C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automobile-Headlight-Lamp Mounting.

Description: Patent for the improvement of automobile headlight lamp mountings. Improvement on lamp bracket described in Letters Patent Number 1,129,207, issued to the author on February 23, 1915.
Date: May 1, 1917
Creator: Kitching, David C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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