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[News Script: Tease]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering teasers of news stories about an oil well and the Fulgham investigation.
Date: October 27, 1972
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Bridgeport dam]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: October 19, 1981, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[Cause No. 11687: Oral Deposition of B. C. McDonald, October 17, 1925]

Description: Document in cause no. 11687, Jake L. Hamon Jr. vs. United States Torpedo Company, transcribing the deposition of B. C. McDonald. McDonald recounts his recollections regarding the shooting of an oil well by J. H. Rapp in Eastland County, Texas. There is a receipt from the United States Torpedo Company included in the document.
Date: October 17, 1925
Creator: Cunningham, Tom J.
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[Cause No. 11687: Deposition of J. H. Rapp]

Description: Document in cause no. 11687, Jake L. Hamon Jr. vs. United States Torpedo Company, transcribing the deposition of Jack H. Rapp. Rapp's testimony discusses his association with the United States Torpedo Company and his shooting of an oil well in Eastland County, Texas.
Date: October 16, 1925
Creator: Cunningham, Tom J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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[News Clip: Waltz Across Texas]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: October 15, 1982, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 58 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Oil Economy]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: October 4, 1988, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 57 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Blazing oil well is extinguished]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about an oil well fire in the East Texas town of Hawkins. Firemen manage to extinguish the blaze after nearly a day.
Date: October 25, 1955
Duration: 3 minutes
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Well-Drilling Apparatus.

Description: Patent for an Artesian or oil well drilling apparatus that has a detachable drill-bit in its tubing and has an "improved means whereby an expansion drill bit or blade of any preferred construction can be secured to or detached from the drill tubing without removing the latter from the well" (lines 12-15). The tubing does not accidentally detach, and the tubing can rotate in either direction.
Date: October 2, 1894
Creator: Horton, Stephen A.
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Swivel for Rotary Drills

Description: Patent for a swivel for rotary drills used for wells of oil, water, and gas. This swivel ensures no substances, such as sand, get into the parts of the drill that move.
Date: October 5, 1920
Creator: Humason, Granville A.
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Hoisting Mechanism

Description: Patent for hoisting mechanism for use in oil-wells. This invention employees a sand-reel placed upon the hoisting shaft. Illustration included.
Date: October 16, 1906
Creator: Johnston, Horace G.
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Pipe-Clamp

Description: Patent for a pipe clamp to be used with well pipes and tubes. Illustrations included.
Date: October 22, 1912
Creator: Everett, Arthur D.
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Core-Barrel.

Description: Patent for a core barrel for use in rotary drilling of oil or water wells, that will allow for easy extraction of the upwardly extending column of material.
Date: October 14, 1919
Creator: Humason, Granville A. & Childs, William L.
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Drill Head For Oil Wells

Description: Patent for Drill Head for oil wells, one object of the invention is to provide a drill head having the capacity to drill through strata of soft formation as may exist between rock layers and in broken formations of clay and boulders, as well as through rock formations themselves, the said drilling head being provided with roller bits or cutters and also with a fish tail cutter.
Date: October 25, 1921
Creator: Sorensen, Sam
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Break-Out Pin.

Description: Patent for a modified break-out pin on an oil derrick which makes it easier to release a wrench for unscrewing pipes when done, but still holds the wrench in place while in use.
Date: October 21, 1919
Creator: Headrick, James O.
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Antifriction Hollow-Tube Sucker-Rod for Deep Wells

Description: Patent for a "simple and inexpensive means for coupling the tubular sections of the sucker rod together and guiding said rod with little or no friction into the well casing or tube" (lines13-17). This object is to be used in "pumping water, oil, and other liquids from deep wells"(lines 11-12).
Date: October 15, 1918
Creator: Black, William L.
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