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[News Clip: Cave in]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about an Irving man rescuing his two sons after an earth-moving machine trapped them in a sewer ditch.
Date: April 16, 1956
Duration: 58 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Construction]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a construction site.
Date: July 8, 1964
Duration: 1 minute 11 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Grass Destroyer

Description: Patent for mechanical grass destroying equipment. This machine produces the results of harrowers, diggers and plows to destroy unwanted plants such as Bermuda and Jackson grass by "sifting the earth off their roots and dropping it back on the ground, and collecting the tops and the roots." (lines 15-17).
Date: March 2, 1920
Creator: Coker, Alvin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Dredge.

Description: Patent for an excavating machine specifically designed for canal digging, that "is an improvement upon a patent granted to Charles S. Butterfield, March 13, 197 and numbered 1,219,371" (lines 10-13). This invention provides a means for firm and stable support of the excavating machine and allows the position of the machine to be easily changed as the work progresses.
Date: November 22, 1921
Creator: Evans, Marvin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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