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[News Script: Uranium]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story. This story aired at 10:00pm.
Date: March 30, 1969, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: McGovern Lawsuit]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of eight corporations which were accused in contributing to the re-election of president Nixon were sued by democratic senator George McGovern.
Date: January 29, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Load-Indicator

Description: Patent for a load indicator that can be attached to the sustaining cable of a drill, allowing its operators to more carefully control the amount of weight applied to the drill bit while it is in use - making it less likely to be crushed during the process of drilling.
Date: unknown
Creator: Fletcher, Harold W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Well-Boring Apparatus

Description: Patent for "new and useful improvements in well boring apparatus. The object of the invention is to provide an apparatus of the character described embodying a rotary table and a novel means for connecting the same to the string of pipe, which extends down into the well and which is rotated by said table and in turn rotates the boring tool carried by the lower end of said spring of pipe" (lines 9-18) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 19, 1920
Creator: Decker, Harry R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mineral-Prospecting Apparatus.

Description: Patent for an "apparatus for drilling and obtaining samples or specimens of minerals" (lines 12-13), and obtaining accurate samples of ores in situations where they would otherwise be washed away by water or broken apart. The patent includes illustrations.
Date: August 26, 1913
Creator: Andrews, Benjamin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sulphur-Mining Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a thermal solvent based sulfur mining apparatus that is placed in a sulfur mining well. Utilizing thermodynamics, the apparatus has a new way to introduce air or steam into the various parts of the apparatus. It is designed with "simplicity and durability of construction" (lines 49-50).
Date: December 17, 1918
Creator: Carmichael, Robert E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hoisting Drum

Description: Patent for improvements to hoisting drums for use in drilling oil, gas, and water wells, with the object being "to employ a plurality of hoisting drums upon the same shaft so that the cable may be wound partly on one drum and partly on another" (lines 73-76) such that the danger of cable cutting is decreased and the speed of operation is increased, including illustrations.
Date: May 2, 1922
Creator: Suman, John R. & Gamble, Adrian R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Drill-Cutter.

Description: Patent for new and improved drill cutter for rotary boring drills including exact description and illustrations.
Date: November 4, 1919
Creator: Godbold, Louis A. & Fletcher, Harold W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Drill-Bit

Description: Patent for Drill-Bit that is especially designed for purpose of drilling through rock, or other hard formations and is also adapted for use in drilling through softer formation, such as shell.
Date: June 10, 1919
Creator: Culmore, March J. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Roller-Drill

Description: Patent for a roller drill for drilling deep into rocks which bores small holes and is stronger than other models of roller drills.
Date: May 31, 1910
Creator: Hughes, Howard R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Roller-Drill

Description: Patent for a roller drill for boring holes into rocks which is stronger than other roller drills and is constructed differently than his previous patent for a roller drill.
Date: May 24, 1910
Creator: Hughes, Howard R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rotary Boring-Drill.

Description: Patent for improvements to rotary boring drills that enable a drill to be assembled and disassembled without a tool and that ensure the removable cutters do not come off during operation.
Date: June 26, 1917
Creator: Hughes, Howard R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rotary Boring Drill

Description: Patent for an improvement in rotary boring drill that will prevent head from wobbling sideways in the hole being drilled.
Date: March 7, 1916
Creator: Hughes, Howard R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rotary Disk Drill

Description: Patent for an improvement to rotary disk drills that prevent excessive wear on the cutting edge of the disk.
Date: March 7, 1916
Creator: Hughes, Howard R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Separating Liquids in Emulsion.

Description: Patent for improved apparatus for separating liquids in emulsion (relates to improved apparatus for separating one liquid from another) when found in emulsion and has especial reference to means for rapidly and effectually dehydrating petroleum oil emulsion.
Date: May 27, 1919
Creator: McKibben, Charles W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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