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[News Clip: Live feed B-roll]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: December 1, 1977, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 19 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Improvement in Ditching-Machines.

Description: Patent for an improved ditching machine design that will "easily and rapidly cut or excavate, on the surface of the ground, soil, clay, or soft stone, a ditch or trench of any reasonable width or depth suitable" (lines 33-37) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 1, 1878
Creator: Austin, Matthew J.
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Wheeled Scraper.

Description: Patent for improvements on the scoop-like body of a wheeled scraper. Includes illustrations.
Date: February 1, 1910
Creator: Robbins, John Proctor
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Stalk-Cutter

Description: Patent for an improved stalk-cutter granted to Reuben L. Price. Improvements made to more effectively trim stalks over uneven ground.
Date: September 1, 1885
Creator: Price, Reuben L.
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Stalk-Cutter.

Description: Patent for a vertically adjustable machine that "reduces liability to clog" (line 18) and reduce clogging.
Date: June 1, 1914
Creator: Scott, Oscar F.
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Stalk-Cutter

Description: Patent for a simple and easy attachable stalk cutter for the beam of a plow for efficient stalk cutting, including instructions and illustrations
Date: February 1, 1916
Creator: Modrall, Don A.
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Hull-Burner.

Description: Patent for a hull burner in particular for use with cotton gins, and is intended to easily attach to the door of a furnace without inconveniencing the operator. The hull burner provides a door to which the chute may be easily disconnected or attached to form an air tight joint to prevent escape of smoke into the furnace room.
Date: June 1, 1915
Creator: Sneed, William Vernon
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Improvement in Seed-Planters.

Description: Patent for a seed-planter that "may be attached to the leg of the attendant and operated by the natural movement of the attendant while walking along behind the machine" (lines 20-23), including illustration.
Date: March 1, 1859
Creator: Benthall, J. C.
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Sulky-Lister

Description: Patent for improved version of sulky-lister, with more effective spring between planter and lister-plow. Improvements include ability for covering disks to move downward and function at required drill depth.
Date: April 1, 1902
Creator: Engelmann, Gustav
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Hoeing-Machine.

Description: Patent for dual drive hoeing machine. Machine utilizes a "carriage, support brackets, journaled drive shaft, crank arm and gyrating arm" (p. 3, lines 31-34). The machine produces straight rows and eliminates side draft (p.1, 15-19)
Date: December 1, 1914
Creator: Ashely, John F.
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Hay-Press.

Description: Patent for a hay bailing machine. "The invention relates to bailing-presses, and more particularly to that class adapted for bailing hay, straw, &c.; and it has for one object to provide a simple and efficient construction in which a continuous rotation of the bailing-lever will act in conjunction with a retractile spring to reciprocate the plunger" (lines 7-13). "A further object of the invention is to provide a simple and efficient construction of detent for holding the gate after the hay or … more
Date: May 1, 1900
Creator: Garrett, Irvin H.
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Hay Pitching and Stacking Machine.

Description: Patent for improvement to hay pitching and stacking machines "to provide a device for pitching and stacking hay, the parts of which can be easily and quickly taken apart or adjusted, and which may be employed in making stacks of hay or straw" (lines 18-22).
Date: February 1, 1887
Creator: Donald, Frank
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