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Autographic Register.

Description: Patent for an autographic register meant "to provide improved means for guiding, printing, cutting, and filling a record-bill and discharging original and duplicate bills" (lines 9-12). The printing and feeding mechanisms operate independently, bills may be any desired length, and checks may be numbered successively and dated.
Date: September 29, 1896
Creator: Norcross, George A.
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Advertising Device.

Description: Patent for an advertising device which may be placed on street corners and incorporate certain elements of construction whereby the same might be adapted to various forms.
Date: 192X
Creator: Hanson, John Zacious
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Wire-Fastener.

Description: Patent for a wire fastener for telegraph poles, which connects to the poles without the use of other wires to tie the fastener to the pole.
Date: December 24, 1907
Creator: Wilburn, Sylvester & Smith, Thomas E.
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Wireless-Telegraph Receiver

Description: Patent for a wireless telegraph receiver which receives incoming intelligence through electric waves and uses crystalline substances as its detector. Illustrations included.
Date: April 20, 1909
Creator: Way, Wesley M.
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Magneto-Telephonic Apparatus

Description: Patent for an invention to improve transmitting vocals and other sounds. It is a magneto telephonic system based on an magnetic field of high intensity.
Date: May 4, 1886
Creator: Brown, Fred. H.
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Linotype Machine

Description: Patent for used producing lines of type, and it is the object of the invention to provide a comparatively simple, small, inexpensive and compact machine of that character generally resembling a type write in its construction and operation, and operable to produce lines of type.
Date: November 20, 1917
Creator: French, Morris
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Type-Writer.

Description: Patent for "attachments for returning the carriages of type-writers to the place of starting and for automatic spacing; and the object is to construct a device that will accomplish these results without in any way interfering with the working of a type-writer and by which the type-writer carriage can be sent back to the first position from any point without the necessity of going to the end of its beat" (lines 7-16).
Date: May 6, 1902
Creator: Fry, Fred H.
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Line Holder and Type Chase

Description: Patent for a line-holder and type-chase, intended to make possible rapid and easy setting of type by unskilled people.
Date: July 31, 1906
Creator: Weeks, Frank W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Manifold-Writing Tablet.

Description: Patent for writing platform which allows for the creation of carbon copies.
Date: April 1, 1879
Creator: Morris, Robert, C.
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Mechanical Telegraph-Sounder

Description: Patent for "a sounder wherein a finger-lever and sounding-lever are combined together with a spring" (lines 13-15) and is "adapted for the use of learners for practicing the manipulation of a telegraph finger-key" (lines 8-10) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 22, 1880
Creator: Clopton, John B.
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Telegraph-Repeater

Description: Patent for a telegraph repeater. This invention improves repeaters by eliminating lag by simplifying the apparatus which increases capacity and clarity in transmission by maintaining a larger current strength.
Date: June 24, 1919
Creator: McKibben, Charles W.
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Telephone Call Box.

Description: Patent for reduction of movements in an improved telephone call box with illustrations.
Date: January 29, 1884
Creator: Oram, John M.; Sutton, Henry M. & Garrett, Henry
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Electric Time-Signaling Apparatus.

Description: Patent for an electric time-signaling apparatus meant for use in hotels or other places where employees need to be alerted. The invention rings a bell and turns on a light when the signals goes off. "If the current of an incandescent electric-light system was electrically connected with a time-circuit, it would destroy the whole mechanism of the time-circuit" (lines 26-29).
Date: November 19, 1895
Creator: Todd, James T. A.
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Electrical Signal System.

Description: Patent for an electrical system "whereby the position of a train anywhere between the ends of a track can be ascertained at either terminal" (lines 14-16).
Date: March 6, 1906
Creator: Lacroix, Fred
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electric Signaling Device.

Description: Patent for an electric signal device which has a shelf with a pad of paper, which when lowered signals a central location elsewhere. It is optimized for use by manufacturing companies watchmen and telegraph operators to send in reports of their location at various intervals.
Date: August 13, 1907
Creator: Baker, John A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Envelop.

Description: Patent for an envelope that employs a lock and seal mechanism to increase security of contents. The envelope cannot be opened without tampering or mutilating the envelope.
Date: January 26, 1915
Creator: Wallace, Curtis C.
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Recording Apparatus

Description: Patent for "Improvements in Recording Apparatus" including illustrations.
Date: February 3, 1920
Creator: Catron, John J.
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Strain-Relieving Attachment for Telegraph-Keys.

Description: Patent for a strain relieving attachment for telegraph keys, which allows Morse code letters made up of dots and dashes to be typed with one key stroke rather than multiple ones, reducing strain on the key and operator and getting rid of extra spaces in the message.
Date: March 24, 1908
Creator: Teachworth, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Printing Rule and Slug and Type-Form.

Description: Patent for rules and slugs that are quickly and easily arranged and that lock securely to make a type form, including one illustration.
Date: January 4, 1921
Creator: Markwell, Andrew E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mold for Typographical Casting-Machines.

Description: Patent for a mold for typographical casting machines which may be altered to produce slugs of different sizes.
Date: April 7, 1914
Creator: Diaz, Pascual M.
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Detector for Wireless Signaling Apparatus.

Description: Patent for wireless signaling apparatus which provides a detector which shall be universal in its application, by means of which any of the well known minerals or materials may be employed and removably held in proper position.
Date: November 21, 1911
Creator: Johnson, Maurice Bernays
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electric Sign.

Description: Patent for an electric lighted sign, as might be displayed in the window of a business. The sign consists of a box with an inner reflective coating, an interior light source (bulb), and front-facing circular cutouts with translucent coverings, the latter arranged to depict the sign text.
Date: December 27, 1921
Creator: Daughdrill, Kenneth W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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