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[Letter from I. H. Kempner to E. S. Holliday, October 31, 1949]

Description: Letter from I. H. Kempner to E. S. Holliday discussing a dinner to be tendered to the Board of Regents of the University of Texas. He believes the cost of the dinner will be around $7.50 per person. He also provides a guest list that includes the Board of Regents, their spouses and other university officials.
Date: October 31, 1949
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
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[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Galveston Chamber Of Commerce, January 31, 1957]

Description: Letter from I. H. Kempner to Galveston Chamber Of Commerce expressing concern about not receiving a reply to his letter from January 18th and clarifies his request for $3,000 from the general fund of the Chamber of Commerce. This amount is intended to be in addition to the existing fund credited to the committee.
Date: January 31, 1957
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
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Aerial Torpedo.

Description: Patent for an aerial torpedo. This device is well suited for automatic targeting without help from man.
Date: August 31, 1915
Creator: Saladiner, Joseph M.
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Cotter-Pin Puller

Description: Patent for cottor-pin puller that is useful to pull cotter pins that are secured in shafts, fly wheels or any other devices without bending or twisting or damaging them.
Date: October 31, 1916
Creator: Hayden, Jefferson B.
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Corn-Heading Knife

Description: Patent for improvements in the cutting blades of corn-heading knives that are worn on the hands. Illustrations included.
Date: March 31, 1914
Creator: Owen, Melville D. & Owen, Leo
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[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Preston E. Smith, March 31, 1949]

Description: Letter from I. H. Kempner to Preston E. Smith referring to a meeting he had with Smith where they discussed the Medical School at the University of Texas. Kempner mentions that the Medical School is a very important institution and deserves adequate funding. He sends a copy of a letter he wrote to a Senator about the Medical School and offers to send another copy to Smith so he can share it with other members of his committee.
Date: March 31, 1949
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
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Air-Tight Heating-Stove

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in air tight heating stoves, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 31, 1898
Creator: Wilson, John Wesley & Wilson, William Wharton
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Locomotive Head-Light

Description: Patent for improvements to locomotive headlights granted to John Robert McCormick in order to make the headlights movable by levers or gears.
Date: March 31, 1885
Creator: McCormick, John Robert
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Band Cutter and Feeder for Thrashers.

Description: Patent for a new and improved feeder and band cutter for thrashers. This design consists "[i]n a band-cutter for a thrasher, the combination with the main frame, main shaft, platforms, and mechanism adapted and arranged to cut the bands, of the crank, rod, oscillating shaft provided with the crank arms . . . reciprocating rod, and depending rod" (lines 38-44).
Date: March 31, 1885
Creator: Cook, Emmanuel Thomas
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Artificial Hand-Grip.

Description: Patent for an improvement to artificial hand-grips that includes a pair of jaws that attaches to an artificial arm and allows wearers to perform various activities.
Date: December 31, 1918
Creator: Corley, Quentin D.
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[Letter from Harris Leon Kempner to Robert Albright, T. D. Armstrong, and Theodore B. Stubbs, August 31, 1966]

Description: Letter from Harris Leon Kempner to Robert Albright, T. D. Armstrong, and Theodore B. Stubbs attaching a copy of a letter from the Texas Research League about a meeting in Galveston that he believes they may be interested in. Ruth Alma Kempner, Edward H. Thomspon, and Harris Leon Kempner, Jr. are all CC on this correspondence.
Date: August 31, 1966
Creator: Kempner, Harris Leon
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Amusement Apparatus

Description: Patent for an amusement apparatus of the character set forth with and inclined place made of a number of pivoted sections which may be simultaneously moved into horizontal position to form steps or seats and be held in such position by trip device provided with a target which latter upon being hit by a thrown ball will release the several sections of the inclined plane of steps and permit them through the weight of one or more persons thereon to aline one with the other and form a continuous in… more
Date: July 31, 1917
Creator: Andrews, J.W.
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Animal Power.

Description: Patent for a new and improved animal power (engine). This design "consists in an animal-power constructed with a small wheel placed loosely upon a stationary upright shaft, and connected by hinges with the inner ends of arms and sweeps attached to the main wheel, which is mounted upon caster-wheels to support the weight of the wheel and its attachments. . . . The object of this invention is to economize power and promote convenience" (lines 16-25).
Date: October 31, 1882
Creator: Knox, William Curtis
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Axle.

Description: Patent for improvement in axles by using a “combination of a bar, two skeins and means for holding the skeins in place upon the bar,” (lines 17-18) includes illustration.
Date: March 31, 1891
Creator: Stewart, John A.
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