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[News Script: Blast]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: April 11, 1969, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Automatic Cut-Off for Cisterns

Description: Patent for a automatic cutoff for cisterns which prevents the first muddy water coming down a rain spout from going into the cistern by sending it into a separate waste pipe.
Date: March 9, 1909
Creator: Estes, Robert Ephriam
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Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for a cotton chopper, which attaches to a cultivator that throws the dirt out of the way to allow the plants to be chopped more easily.
Date: March 15, 1910
Creator: Arthur, George P.
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Button for Billiard Counters.

Description: Patent for a new and improved button for billiard counters. This design "ha[s] the transverse opening and passage extending therefrom to the periphery thereof and communicating with said opening and the longitudinal hole in close proximity to the transverse opening, and the pin adapted to engage said hole, whereby the button is removably secured to a wire" (lines 83-90).
Date: November 18, 1890
Creator: De Vitt, Phillip Melvin
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Corn-Header.

Description: Patent for a device for the removal of the heads of corn. The device contains a blade and attaches to a person's hand.
Date: May 2, 1916
Creator: Hooper, Howard Henry
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Cotton-Chopper

Description: Patent for cotton chopper attachment for wheeled cultivators that allowed the user to "cut or chop out portions of the cotton row so that the growth of the remaining cotton is facilitated."
Date: October 20, 1914
Creator: Arthur, George P.
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Regional Water Plan: Region F, 2016, Volume 1. Main Report

Description: Water plan for Region F describing water supply locations and suppliers, the general state of the water supply in the area, forecasts for future usage numbers, management and conservation plans for both suppliers and users in each county, impacts of implementation of the water plan, and the plan making process.
Date: November 2015
Creator: Freese and Nichols, Inc.
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Well Tube

Description: Patent for a well tube. "This invention relates to well pumps and particularly to a suction attachment for use in conjunction with the strainers of pumps of that character wherein a piston is operatively arranged within an outflow pipe" (line 8-12). Illustration included.
Date: March 5, 1907
Creator: Medlock, Augustus Lafayette
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Spark-Plug

Description: Patent for an improved spark plug assembly used in explosive engines allowing for easier cleaning of the electrodes while the motor is running, among other enhancements over contemporary spark plug design.
Date: April 27, 1915
Creator: Inman, John P. & Estes, Robert E.
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Tool for Building and Repairing Wire Fences

Description: Patent for a wire fence building and repair tool that includes "features of a wire stretcher, staple puller, hammer, and a crowbar" (lines 15-16) and can "secure together the two extremities of a broken fence wire so that the same may be tied or intertwisted." (lines 18-20)
Date: August 11, 1914
Creator: Bingham, Robert L.
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Spark-Plug

Description: Patent for a spark plug used in explosive engines. Illustrations included.
Date: July 26, 1910
Creator: Estes, Robert E. & Inman, John P.
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Switch-Throwing Mechanism.

Description: Patent related to switch throwing mechanisms, specifically for vehicles. This switch throwing mechanism allows the operator of the vehicle to properly conduct the switch without stopping the vehicle.
Date: April 2, 1912
Creator: Reiger, Paul J.
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Music-Case.

Description: Patent for a "music case or holder for carrying, protecting, and using sheet-music, and is so constructed that by its use the music is not rolled nor creased, is held in place, and it is not necessary to take the music from the case when it is to be used." (Lines 8-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 22, 1895
Creator: Ray, Theodore
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Washing-Machine

Description: Patent for "a washing-machine which will rapidly wash clothes of coarse or fine texture without injury thereto. This object I accomplish by my improved washing-machine, which consists, essentially, of a cylindrical body, a flexible and adjustable wash-board in the lower half thereof, and a corrugated drum rotating in the body above the wash-board" (lines 9-16).
Date: October 28, 1890
Creator: Baugh, Reuben P.
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Road-Machine.

Description: Patent for "a machine for resurfacing roads or preparing new roads" (lines 9-10). Machine includes an adjustable scraper to aid in leveling of the roadway and compresses the edges of the roads using drags or shoes. The machine is adaptable to aid in road construction "depending upon the nature and condition of the road's surface" (lines 16-17).
Date: October 24, 1916
Creator: Dean, William A.
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Pencil-Holder.

Description: Patent for a new pencil-holder that is "a light, efficient and convenient pencil-holder capable of reliably securing the pencil to which it is attached within the pocket, thereby holding the same in readiness for use." (Lines 14-17) Illustration included.
Date: May 8, 1900
Creator: Hogg, George, Sr.
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