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Improvement in Wood Pavements.

Description: Patent for a new and improved construction of Bois D'Arc Pavement, which uses two layers of planks that cross at right angle as a base, sand to hold bois d'arc blocks in place and fill gaps in between, and coal-tar covering planks to prevent sand from shifting. It includes illustrations.
Date: January 14, 1879
Creator: Shellenberger, Samuel Luther
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[News Script: Von Braun]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the joint conference of the American Rocket Society and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers with guest speaker Wernher Von Braun.
Date: March 18, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Cindy to get legs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a toddler named Cindy Inman of Sherman traveling to East Orange, New Jersey, to be fitted for artificial legs.
Date: November 27, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Cindy to get legs]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a toddler named Cindy Inman of Sherman traveling to East Orange, New Jersey, to be fitted for artificial legs.
Date: November 27, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 19 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

The Grape Man of Texas

Description: Text for an article published in Texas Highways magazine about Thomas Volney Munson and his contributions to the field of viticulture.
Date: July 2005
Creator: Mallory, Randy
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Regional Water Plan: Region C, 2016, Volume 1. Main Report

Description: Water plan for Region C describing the areas water resources and suppliers, usage statistics and forecasts, threats and water needs, methodology for making the plan, water conservation methods and plans, and recommendations on water management for different water suppliers and counties.
Date: December 2015
Creator: Freese and Nichols, Inc.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wood-Boring Machine.

Description: Patent for a wood boring machine "which is especially adapted to bore holes of extreme length in columns or like structural members by cutting away only a portion of the wood forming hole in same" (lines 11-15).
Date: March 13, 1906
Creator: Bible, Hunley & Robinson, Lee A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Window-Sash.

Description: Patent for a window sash, which does not require the use of putty to secure window panes and can be used on various size windows.
Date: December 6, 1910
Creator: Crump, William R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wrench.

Description: Patent for a wrench used specifically for turning nuts or other related mechanisms that need a sliding jaw.
Date: December 8, 1914
Creator: Hunter, Arthur G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Stretching and Staple-Pulling Device.

Description: Patent for a tool "which is adapted for stretching wire for fencing purposed and which may also be used for drawing the staples from the posts and splicing between posts when such action is necessary." (Lines 9-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 20, 1897
Creator: McElroy, Jesse Roberts
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire Tightener.

Description: Patent for a new and improved wire tightener. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the bar having a longitudinal slot, with knife-edge and forked twisting-hooks, and the offsetting lever-handle having flat portion, with notch or wire-seat fulcrumed in the slot of the bar and having its outer end extended in the form of a prong between the twisting-hooks . . . to form a discharging device for the wire" (lines 64-72).
Date: March 19, 1889
Creator: Taylor, Shapley P. Ross
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire Tightener and Splicer

Description: Patent for "a device adapted to be used in tightening and splicing the wires of wire fences, which can be manufactured at a very small cost and sold at about five cents each" (lines 12-16).
Date: August 20, 1889
Creator: Taylor, Shapley P. Ross; Sharman, William T. & Jamison, Joseph L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wrench.

Description: Patent for a wrench whose jaws can be adjusted quickly by pressing a handle on the wrench with the thumb.
Date: July 27, 1909
Creator: Ferguson, Rufus Andrew
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wagon-Body

Description: Patent for "new and useful improvements in wagon-bodies, having for its object simplicity and durability," (lines 10-12) including illustrations.
Date: December 27, 1887
Creator: Folsome, Charles F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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