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[News Script: Beauty Queen]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story saying that the first round of preliminary competition for the 1974 Texas Junior Miss title, Garland High School senior Debbie Miller took poise and appearance honors.
Date: January 24, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Windmill.

Description: Patent for a new and improved windmill. This design consists in "the sectional spiral vanes of the wind-wheel, having a flange on the outer edge, widest at the end of the vane on which the wind first takes effect, and inclined to the plane of the vane for deflecting the wind thereon . . . [and] [t]he brake, having guide-pulley and combined with the pull-cord, tail-vane, and the wheel-shaft, said shaft having a friction-wheel" (lines 13-22).
Date: February 24, 1885
Creator: Benoit, Joseph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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