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Falls County

Description: Map of the Prairies and Lakes region covering Falls County, Texas. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: May 6, 1874
Creator: Wise, Louis C.
Partner: Texas General Land Office
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[News Clip: Rosebud]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a police investigation regarding a murder in Rosebud, Texas.
Date: January 6, 1996, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 50 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Windmill.

Description: Patent for a new and improved windmill. This design "relates to that class of windmills in which semicircular wings are employed upon a vertical shaft; and it has for its object to provide simple and efficient means to govern the speed of the same, and also to throw the windmill into or out of operation when desired . . . A further object of the invention is to provide a windmill of the above-mentioned class which will possess merit in point of durability, inexpensiveness, and general efficienc… more
Date: November 6, 1888
Creator: Moore, Charles M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gearing for Operating Windmill Pumps.

Description: Patent for new and improved gearing for windmill pumps. This design has for its object "to raise water from wells by suitable mechanism connected with a fan, from which the power is communicated to the pump through said mechanism" (lines 13-16).
Date: September 6, 1887
Creator: Jordan, John E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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