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[News Clip: Windmill house]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: May 8, 1984, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 54 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Tierra Grande, Volume 8, Number 3, July 2001

Description: This is a quarterly journal provided to real estate licensees covering information related to various aspects of real estate buying and ownership in Texas. Articles in this issue covers the deregulation of electric utilities, wind power, rural property developers water supply options, FHA Loans, Texas' economy slowing, rural subdivisions in countrified atmosphere, novice home buyers, Texas Veterans Land Board uses, changing demographics in Texas, and ownership and uses of surface water.
Date: July 2001
Creator: Texas A & M University. Real Estate Center.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Windmill.

Description: Patent for a windmill for "connecting or mounting a pump rod and a pitman for transmitting movement from the crank shaft carrying the wheel" (lines 14-16) in a balanced way that will reduce wear and tear. Additionally, other elements attached to the supporting structure will "compensate for the the uneven action due to the variable pull on the pitman and pump rod." (lines 31-33).
Date: December 6, 1921
Creator: Winslett, William Henry
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Windmill-Regulator

Description: Patent for "improvements in windmill-regulators of that class distinguished by the provision of a movable bucket connected to the regulating-cable of a windmill and communicating with the tank or reservoir supplied by the mill to cause the depression of the bucket for the purpose of throwing the mill out of gear or out of the wind. . .when the level of water in the tank has reached a predetermined point" (lines 8-18).
Date: March 5, 1901
Creator: Stein, John
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Windmill

Description: Patent for "a mill equipped with an automatic governor for regulating the speed of the windmill and for preventing injury to the apparatus by throwing the blades of the wheel into or out of the wind in a manner to secure the most effective operation of the device at all times" (lines 9-15).
Date: May 14, 1901
Creator: Stein, John
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Windmill

Description: Patent for a windmill. It turns creating rotary motion, caused by the wind, which is used as a pumping power source.
Date: November 2, 1905
Creator: Doty, David
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Intermittent-Operating Mechanism

Description: Patent for intermittent-operating mechanism. This is to improve upon the automatic regulating means for windmills in regards to supplying water to a tank.
Date: October 16, 1917
Creator: Bittner, Emil R.
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Windmill.

Description: Patent for an improvement in windmills by providing “a number of converging blades which are arranged to the inner side of a casing, midway between the front and rear series of feathering wings or sails. These blades are arranged at opposite angles to the normal position of the feathering wings or sails. These blades are stationary and serve the purpose of deflecting the wind after it has operated upon the front set of wings or sails and directing it squarely against the rear set of wings or … more
Date: June 16, 1891
Creator: Monday, Robert
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Windmill.

Description: Patent for a windmill that qualifies as "a substantial and strong machine capable of withstanding the high winds of the Western prairies, which will be at the same time inexpensive and simple in construction, and which will automatically regulate itself in such a manner as to run with a uniform speed in all kinds of winds" (lines 16-22)
Date: August 30, 1892
Creator: Campbell, George W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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