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Bale Tie.

Description: Patent for a new and improved bale tie. This design consists in "[t]he buckle, having the side re-entering angles, the bars, and the slot the edges at the apices of the re-entering angles being expanded . . . with strengthening-fins formed therein" (lines 65-70). This novel construction and combination of parts allows for "the provision of a tie-buckle that can readily be applied without extraneous fastening devices either with the tie or the buckle itself, and one which can be repeatedly used,… more
Date: June 7, 1887
Creator: Copeland, Eliza A.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Handling Brick.

Description: Patent for an apparatus for handling brick "whereby the number of brick handled by a single hand may be greatly increased" (lines 9-11) including illustrations.
Date: January 3, 1888
Creator: Aber, Edgar
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Tyler 1889 Sheet 5

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Tyler in Smith County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1889
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
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Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Tyler 1889 Sheet 2

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Tyler in Smith County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1889
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
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Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Tyler 1889 Sheet 3

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Tyler in Smith County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1889
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
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Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Tyler 1889 Sheet 1

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Tyler in Smith County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1889
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
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Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Tyler 1885 Sheet 3

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Tyler in Smith County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1885
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
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Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Tyler 1885 Sheet 2

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Tyler in Smith County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1885
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Tyler 1885 Sheet 1

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Tyler in Smith County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1885
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Tyler 1889 Sheet 4

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Tyler in Smith County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1889
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
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Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

[Photograph of the Synod of Texas Meeting]

Description: Photograph of the Synod of Texas Meeting in Tyler, Texas. The all male group is positioned on the steps of a building with most of the men wearing dark color suits. Additional information provided identifies Rev. Samuel A. King, the minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Waco, as a man with a grey beard on the first row. He is positioned standing with his hands crossed and holding a hat in his hands.
Date: 1888
Creator: Hiester, H. T.
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Partner: First Presbyterian Church of Waco

Locomotive Valve Gear.

Description: Patent for a new and improved valve-gear. This design "is especially designed for locomotive-engines; and the invention consists of a combination of rockers, shafts, arms, levers, links, and connecting-rods worked from the cross-head of the locomotive exclusively, and so arranged as to give the valve a correct motion" (lines 7-13).
Date: December 8, 1885
Creator: Lewis, Wallace James
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Lubricant

Description: Patent for a lubricant which consists "of a gelatinous and fibrous material" (lines 14-15), containing description of creation and uses.
Date: April 6, 1886
Creator: Marshall, Edward S. & Savage, Robert W.
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Steam-Engine

Description: Patent for a steam engine, improving on the original design so as to "provide a steam-engine having few parts so as to avoid the use of eccentrics, slide-valve, valve-rod, piston and connecting rods, stuffing-boxes, and glands, thus increasing the actual power by decreasing the friction" (lines 26-31).
Date: January 1, 1889
Creator: Harpst, Edgar S.
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Mechanical Motor

Description: Patent for "a motor of cheap and simple construction, which is adapted for driving various classes of light machinery, and more especially for use in connection with fans, such as are commonly used for creating currents of air in bar-rooms, dining-rooms, and the like" (lines 16-22).
Date: July 9, 1889
Creator: Harpst, Edgar S.
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Spark Arrester.

Description: Patent for a new and improved spark arrester. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the stack, of the upper and lower portions . . . of the inner cylinder, separated by the annular opening, the spiral wing-guide, the collar-flange, between the stack-wall and [a] section, and the cylindrical partition below said collar-flange in the flue" (lines 73-79).
Date: November 25, 1884
Creator: Jones, James A.
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Hand Propelling Device for Sewing Machines.

Description: Patent for a new and improved crank for sewing machines. This design "is to provide propelling device for sewing-machines and similar treadle-power machines which shall dispense with the treadle-action and injurious strain which its use imposes . . . It consists in a rod jointed to the fly-wheel after the manner of a pitman, but which, instead of connecting with a treadle, is fashioned into a handle, which extends obliquely upward toward the operator, and is combined with and held in place by a… more
Date: April 10, 1888
Creator: Beaird, Kate Palmer
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Hame Tug.

Description: Patent for a new and improved hame-tug. This design consists in "the combination, with the bar provided at one end with a buckle, of the shield secured to the inner side of the bar and provided with an outward-extending guard, which extends through the loop of the buckle and is provided with a slot for the reception of the tongue of the buckle" (lines 64-70).
Date: July 9, 1889
Creator: McKenzie, Joseph Hyder
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Grocer's Bin.

Description: Patent for a new and improved grocer's bin. This design "consists, broadly, in a box or bin pivoted so that its upper open end may be conveniently tilted out for the purpose of replenishing or taking therefrom, and may as conveniently be pushed back into the casing or framing" (lines 9-13).
Date: December 11, 1888
Creator: Johnston, Lysander
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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