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[News Script: 3 day work week]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a manufacturing plant in Sherman that is going to institute a 3-day work week featuring 12-hour shifts
Date: November 27, 1971, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Punching-Machine.

Description: Patent for a simple and durable punching-machine for metalworking that punching metal and feeds it forward. The invention is made up of " a carriage adapted to support the sheet to be punched, and provided with a toothed bar, a rock shaft carrying a pawl adapted to engage the said toothed bar to move the carriage forward, and a punch lever adapted to receive a swinging motion from the said shaft, the said lever being connected with the punch to move the latter downward to punch the sheet" (line… more
Date: August 14, 1894
Creator: Walsh, Richard
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Flue-Beader.

Description: Patent for a tool that allows a boiler flue to rotate while not letting any steam out of the flue. This allows for the projecting end of the flue to turn without damaging itself and makes taking the flue apart easier for workmen.
Date: May 4, 1897
Creator: Hutchison, Wilson F.
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Broom or Brush

Description: Patent for metal brooms or brushes that are "strong and durable, relatively light in weight, and can be inexpensively manufactured" (line 13-15). It is intended for "sweeping snow, mud, slush, and the like" (line 16-17). The patent can also be applied for smaller version of metal brooms or brushes for other purposes.
Date: March 16, 1915
Creator: Airhart, Noah S. & Gold, Egbert H.
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