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Retrospect, Special Edition, November 2018

Description: Special edition of the Denton County Historical Commission newsletter focusing on the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. It includes a chronology of events and information about important people and activities in Denton County during that time period.
Date: November 2018
Creator: Denton County Historical Commission (Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Airship-Destroyer.

Description: Patent for a new airship-destroyer with the new ability to fire pellets and bombs in various directions and differing altitudes (lines 8-12), to ignite fuses to prime the device for firing at a predetermined altitude (lines 13-19), to incorporate a bomb to explode upon contact with the airship (lines 20-24), and to provide the projectile with a rocket to propel it to a greater altitude (lines 25-28).
Date: November 5, 1918
Creator: Saladiner, Joseph M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Horizontal-Drilling Machine.

Description: Patent for an easily adjustable and transportable machine that drills a horizontal hole in the ground to accompany a previous invention of the inventor, a method for the destruction of military fortifications. The machine's mechanisms are so housed to protect against exploding shells and includes illustrations.
Date: May 8, 1917
Creator: Hughes, Howard R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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