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[Wayne and new mail boy]

Description: Photograph of a man liquid from a plastic container into a large metal machine. He is wearing glasses and a uniform shirt, leaning over as he pours. The metal machine has three tall canisters coming off the top of it.
Date: 1962
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Virus]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: March 12, 1982, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 36 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Collapsible tank]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a new rubber tank designed for transporting liquid.
Date: October 23, 1957
Duration: 1 minute 09 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Birds]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of pigeons who are fine carrying messages for letting loose at Super Bowls and for scenic shots of movies made in Rome.
Date: February 25, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[A rectangular piece of metal in a beaker]

Description: Photograph of a rectangular piece of metal in a beaker. The rectangle has a small hole near its top end and has been placed into a glass beaker. A liquid fills most of the beaker, within which dark clumps stick to the liquid's top and bottom edges. Smaller clumps and scattered particles float in the middle of the liquid. Beneath the beaker and the metal rectangle is a dark, smooth surface while behind them is a wood-paneled wall.
Date: 195X
Creator: Rogers, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Pump.

Description: Patent for an inexpensive, simple, and effective pump that can be easily cleaned, but stays relatively clean.
Date: April 10, 1894
Creator: Tom, Joseph C. & Tom Edward A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pumping Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a pumping apparatus that has "certain improvements in that class of pumps known as ejectors for raising liquids out of wells by means of compressed air or stream" (lines 9-12). The pump quickly and easily raises large amounts of water and is an improvement on a patent previously granted to the inventor (No. 474,819).
Date: March 27, 1894
Creator: Nevill, William Birt
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Siphon-Pump for Oil-Cans.

Description: Patent for a simple and inexpensive siphon meant to transfer oil from a container to another container without spilling the liquid. It can transfer a liquid from a reservoir to a receptacle and back again without spilling.
Date: August 15, 1893
Creator: Franklin, Edward A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gas-Generating Machine.

Description: Patent for "...an improved method of and means for generating hydrocarbon vapors for heating and lighting purposes; and it consists in the novel manner in which the process is carried out and in the novel construction and combination of parts comprising the generating apparatus..." (lines 18-24) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 9, 1897
Creator: Mitchell, Francis L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Valve

Description: Patent for a new and durable valve design, with illustrations.
Date: May 2, 1916
Creator: Villareal, Patricio
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bottle-Filling Device.

Description: Patent for filling bottles with "two liquids and introducing them into the bottle at the same time under pressure" (lines 17-18), specifically for "carbonated beverages" (lines 12-13).
Date: April 6, 1920
Creator: Dannelley, Dillon C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Compensating Pump-Spring.

Description: Patent for an improvement on the inventor's previous patent (No. 450,657). The improvements include getting rid of the sleeve, and "employ[ing] volute springs instead of the straight flat springs formerly used; [the inventor] also dispense[s] with the links and connect the inner ends of the springs to long pitmen which have a pivotal connection with the suction rod at a point above the springs; [the inventor] furthermore provide[s] a means for adjusting the tension of the springs without alteri… more
Date: April 11, 1893
Creator: Black, William L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Measure and Funnel.

Description: Patent for a combined measure and funnel that can be used to fill small-mouthed vessels. It can support itself and is adjustable in order to fit different sized vessels and has "a means for stopping the flow of liquid from the measure whenever so desired and to allow it to flow at will" (lines 26-28).
Date: November 1, 1892
Creator: Holt, Dudley T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Funnel.

Description: Patent for an improved "funnel device which is adapted to be connected to the inlet of a receptacle such as a tank and form therewith an air tight connection provided with a manually operated valve" (lines 18-23).
Date: March 7, 1916
Creator: Errington, Walter W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Funnel.

Description: Patent for an improved funnel that is meant to transfer liquids into receptacles with small openings, "the object being to provide a novel construction whereby a valve is automatically closed when the receptacle is full or the liquid has reached the proper level, so as to cut off the supply and prevent overflow which frequently occurs in using the ordinary funnels, resulting in loss and waste" (lines 16-23).
Date: June 27, 1893
Creator: Wright, George H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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