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[News Script: Oil tank fire]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a fire destroying eight oil storage tanks and two warehouse building in Gonzales, Texas.
Date: September 13, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Boiler

Description: Patent for a steam boiler "to provide simple and effective means for quickly generating steam by exposing the water fully to the caloric influence of the furnace or fire in the latter through the medium of radial tubular attachments" (lines 9-14), including illustrations.
Date: September 3, 1901
Creator: Hensley, Frank Alfred
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Soil Survey of Gonzales County, Texas

Description: Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of Gonzales County, Texas.
Date: September 2006
Creator: United States. Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Letter from I. H. Kempner to R. S. Dilworth, September 14, 1945]

Description: Letter from I. H. Kempner to R. S. Dilworth discussing the heads of the Todd Dry Dock Company in Galveston which consist of L. R. Lawder, E. N. Smith, and L. E. Breese and informing Dilworth that if he needs more information to write Kempner and Kempner will see what he can find on the company.
Date: September 14, 1945
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Partner: Rosenberg Library

South Texas Plazas

Description: Information page for an article about Hispanic plazas in South Texas that was published in the September 2002 issue of Texas Highways magazine.
Date: 2002-09~
Creator: Mallory, Randy
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Insecticide Distributor.

Description: Patent for a new and improved bug sprayer. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a base, a bellows mounted thereon, a receptacle arranged in advance of the bellows and adapted to contain poison to be distributed, a forwardly-projecting discharge-tube, laterally-extending discharge-tubes comprising inner rigid sections, outer rigid sections having series of discharge-nozzles, and flexible couplings connecting the rigid sections, and the braces having their inner ends pivoted to the base … more
Date: September 27, 1892
Creator: Talley, Reuben J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insect-Destroyer.

Description: Patent for boll-weevil insect destroyer to that can be attached to cotton cultivator device and used to remove and destroy boll weevils simultaneously to plowing the cotton with the cultivator.
Date: September 5, 1916
Creator: McCracken, Ninian S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in the Manufacture of Black Bottle-Glass.

Description: Patent for manufacturing black bottle-glass by using "combination with other ingredients, an earthy slate of a peculiar character, called "clay-slate," for the purpose of furnishing the coloring-matter of the glass,as well as forming one of the bases of the glass itself."(line 10-15) Instruction only, no illustration.
Date: September 2, 1856
Creator: McCully, John F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vehicle-Brake.

Description: Patent for a new and useful vehicle brake, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 20, 1898
Creator: Ramage, Joseph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Meat-Tenderer.

Description: Patent for a meat-tenderer that "consists of two plates having a series of intermeshing teeth thereon and connected by suitable means to allow of automatic adjustment, the object of which is to provide a utensil for culinary purposes" (lines 11-15).
Date: September 12, 1893
Creator: Passmore, Benjamin Hill
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Drill.

Description: Patent for a simple, durable, and effective drill that "automatically expand[s] in the bottom of the well below the tubing, to cut a hole sufficiently large for the tubing without requiring a second drilling or reaming process" (lines 11-15).
Date: September 25, 1894
Creator: Lindholm, Charlie M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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