5 Matching Results

Search Results

Advanced search parameters have been applied.
in subjects: "wires"  
Results: 1 - 5
captions transcript

[News Clip: Shocked Man]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Arthur Philpott, who was rushed to St. Joseph Hospital, Fort Worth, with burns after an electrical shock sustained during a house moving by the Hardeman house-moving firm.
Date: March 23, 1964
Duration: 1 minute 13 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Explosion]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about an explosion in Fort Worth caused by wind whipping two high voltage lines together.
Date: August 23, 1957
Duration: 1 minute 27 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Skyline]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about two new buildings being constructed in Dallas.
Date: July 23, 1958
Duration: 2 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Wire-Stretcher.

Description: Patent for a simple, economical, and effictive wire-stretcher that uses "the fence-post as the fulcrum for the implement or tool in using the latter to stretch the wires longitudinally from post to post, and to provide a simple hand implement or tool by which a single person can rapidly string the fence-wires from post to post, stretch the wires, and kink or twist the same to take up slack" (lines 19-26).
Date: July 23, 1895
Creator: Cardwell, William C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fence-Making Machine.

Description: Patent for a simple, portable fence-making machine meant to separate crossed wires, re-utilizes old wires, and has "a wedge being employed in the twisting-head for the purpose of separating the old twists and causing them to pass through the twisting-eye" (lines 22-25). The machine allows the wires to be equally spaced apart, and the space is adjustable. A picket-gage is included in the invention, which regulates the space between pickets.
Date: July 23, 1895
Creator: Briney, Benjamin C. & Geron, Solomon C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Back to Top of Screen