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[News Clip: Woodcarvers]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: March 21, 1981, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Worker carving wood]

Description: Photograph of a construction worker using wood-working tools to perfectly cut a notch in a wood plank. His knee is resting on the plank and his hand beside it while he works. There is a chisel on the bench beside him. He is wearing striped overalls and is smoking a cigarette. He is working to finish the interior of a building on the NTSU campus.
Date: 196X
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Tool for Removing Chips from Mortises.

Description: Patent for a new and improved chisel. This design "consist[s] of a body portion which is taped from its shank to near its point, the said point being provided with a barbed portion having a round swell" (lines 57-61).
Date: June 23, 1885
Creator: Winzenreid, Godfrey
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tool for Sinking Wells.

Description: Patent for improvements in tools for sinking artesian wells, that the tool “will perform its duty under all circumstance and excavate as well in hard materials as in soft earth, as quicksand and cavey formations, and will not have its functions interfered with when an insufficient flow of water is encountered.” (Lines 17-22) Illustration is included.
Date: June 16, 1891
Creator: Stephenson, James D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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