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[News Clip: Outdoor]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story by reporter Bill Tippett about hunting in trees and the tagging of hunted deer. This story aired at 5pm.
Date: December 21, 1989
Duration: 1 minute 51 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Crash probe]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Civil Aeronautics Board opening an official inquiry into a recent plane crash.
Date: October 21, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Wire-Stretcher.

Description: Patent for improvements in wire stretchers by using a T-shaped lever “to stretch the wire readily to the desired tension, and is capable of maintaining the wire at that tension until after stapling or otherwise fastening the same to a post.” (Lines 61-65) Illustration is included.
Date: April 21, 1891
Creator: Kennedy, Thomas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gate.

Description: Patent for a rotary gate that has latch-posts and spring-latches at its ends. The spring-latches are designed to employ the latches. "Levers fulcrumed on the top of the gate and connected with each other, connecting-rods connecting said levers with the spring-latches, and vibratory braces rising from the sides of the gate and secured to said levers" (lines 33-37).
Date: July 21, 1896
Creator: Holder, Elisha G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Umbrella Support

Description: Patent for support item worn as a harness, into which the umbrella can be placed allowing for the user to be hands free while protected from the rain.
Date: November 21, 1916
Creator: Merrill, Dimmitt H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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