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Inventory of the county archives of Texas : Rockwall County, no. 199

Description: Inventory of the records of Rockwall County housed in the Rockwall County Courthouse as of 1936. Begins with a historical sketch of the county along with information on the housing, care, and accessibility of the records. Describes the records of the Commissioners Court, County Clerk as Recorder, District Court, County Court, Justice of the Peace Courts, Sheriff, Tax Assessor-Collector, Board of Equalization, County Treasurer, County Board of School Trustees, County School Superintendent, and… more
Date: February 1940
Creator: Historical Records Survey. Texas.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Railway-Signal

Description: Patent for a railway signal that is activated when the wheels of a train pass over a switch. Illustrations included.
Date: May 26, 1908
Creator: Harvey, Albert Wadkins
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railroad Signal

Description: Patent for a railroad signal. This invention is an improvement for signalling by the trains interaction on the rails. Illustration included.
Date: April 30, 1907
Creator: Harvey, Albert Wadkins
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railway-Gate.

Description: Patent for a new and useful railway gate, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 6, 1898
Creator: McGregor, Montague M. & Williams, James Henry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow Point Fastener

Description: Patent for a plow point fastener. This invention is an improvement to plow point fasteners and secure the shovels to the standards of cultivator plows. Illustration included.
Date: December 11, 1906
Creator: Stedham, William H. & Miller, John N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Draft-Equalizer.

Description: Patent for a Draft-Equalizer that will "provide a simple, convenient , and inexpensive device for equalizing the draft of wheeled cultivators." ( lines 14-16), Including illustrations.
Date: July 3, 1900
Creator: Zollner, Matthes
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ejector-Pump.

Description: Patent for an improved ejector pump that operates using air or steam pressure, and pumps water any height or distance. The invention is easily operated and practical.
Date: January 23, 1894
Creator: Nevill, William Birt
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Pamphlet: "Together We Build"]

Description: Church pamphlet summarizing a fundraising campaign to build a new classroom building for the First Baptist Church of Rockwall, including graphs displaying church growth, floor maps of the proposed building, and soliciting donations to the church. The pamphlet begins with a short history of the church, and includes a frequently-asked-questions page.
Date: 1991~
Creator: First Baptist Church of Rockwall
Partner: First Baptist Church of Rockwall

[Certificate of Registration for Rockwell Baraca]

Description: Certificate of registration issued by the Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, certifying the Baraca Sunday school of the First Baptist Church of Rockwall's enrolllment into the convention's Organized Class Department.
Date: December 30, 1921
Creator: Southern Baptist Convention
Partner: First Baptist Church of Rockwall

Cultivator Attachment

Description: Patent for altering the regulating the depth of insertion into the ground, without the need of operators alighting from seat of cultivator.
Date: June 20, 1916
Creator: Parker, Andy F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cultivator

Description: Patent for a wheeled cultivator with spring tension, a frame that can be tilted, and pivoting wheel-axles. It is an improved version of their earlier patent, number 615,775, from December 13, 1898. The cultivator can straddle multiple rows and be drawn by various numbers of livestock, including illustrations.
Date: July 3, 1900
Creator: Zöllner, Matthes & Zöllner, Carl
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.

Description: Patent for a machine that allows the user to simultaneously cut down and plow cotton, or perform either task separately. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 5, 1897
Creator: Hargrove, Byron Lafayette
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Seeding-Machine.

Description: Patent for a Seeding-Machine that serves as a flexible connector to cultivating devices or other frames related to seeding. In addition, the Seeding-Machine can be utilized independently, Illustrations included.
Date: July 3, 1900
Creator: Zollner, Matthes & Zollner, Carl
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Frame For Cultivators.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in frames for cultivators and other agricultural implements, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 13, 1898
Creator: Zollner, Matthes & Zollner, Carl
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Acetylene-Gas Generator.

Description: Patent for "improvement in acetylene-gas generators, and has for one object to provide an exceedingly- simple apparatus of this description in which the pipes and connections are closed , and thus protected from freezing by the effects of atmospheric changes; and a further object of my invention is to remove the possibility of an explosion taking place during the manipulation of the machine." (lines 9-17) including illustrations.
Date: July 31, 1900
Creator: Hartman, Gus
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Drill.

Description: Patent for a new and improved drill. This design consists in "the combination, with the main shaft carrying two bevel gear-wheels, of a shaft carrying a bevel gear-wheel adapted to be connected alternately with the two bevel gear-wheels on said main shaft, a pinion secured on the said shaft, and a disk provided with a bevel gear-wheel meshing in the said pinion, said disk being connected with the drilling-tool, so that the latter can move freely up and down, but is turned by the said disk" (lin… more
Date: June 26, 1888
Creator: Godwin, John Calhoon.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Flue-Cleaner.

Description: Patent for a portable flue cleaner for boilers. Through a nozzle on the cleaner, the flue cleaner uses the steam from the boiler to remove dirt, dust and soot. The dirt is forced out of the boiler when the steam escapes.
Date: August 17, 1915
Creator: Leonard, Carl
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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