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[News Clip: Ageing Airplanes]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the Ageing Aircraft Program.
Date: October 13, 1998
Duration: 1 minute 39 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Steam-Cushion Valve.

Description: Patent for "a new and useful steam cushion valve, and its object is to provide a steam cushion valve that will sever to automatically retard the exhaust from a cylinder as the piston approaches one of the cylinder heads." (lines 9-14) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 23, 1915
Creator: Henry, Nelson B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car for Pneumatic Railways.

Description: Patent for a car for pneumatic railways meant to "provide a car especially adapted for the [air-]tube, the same being constructed with track-wheels in the central line of the cars" (lines 12-15). It is also "a double car divided lengthwise centrally by a partition-wall, through which communication may be had between a car-section - that is, between the double car within the same - and to provide each end portion of this double car with a door" (lines 17-22). There are two track-wheels above theā€¦ more
Date: November 19, 1895
Creator: Rush, Cicero Alonzo
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pneumatic Knee-Pad.

Description: Patent for a pneumatic knee-pad, to protect the clothing and relieve pain of workers who kneel for prolonged periods of time.
Date: December 6, 1921
Creator: Shelton, James T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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