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[News Clip: Killer slain]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about convicted murderer Franklin C. Perkins being fatally wounded by police after he escaped his cell at the McLennan county jail.
Date: May 3, 1958
Duration: 1 minute 31 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Mechanical Starter

Description: Patent for "improvements in mechanical starters for internal combustion engines" (lines 10-11). It is designed for the use in automobiles, trucks, and similar vehicles.
Date: January 3, 1918
Creator: Johnson, William S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automobile-Cooling System

Description: Patent for an improvement to the cooling system of the internal combustion engine of an automobile. "The object of the invention being to provide an improved cooling system of this kind which embodies means for cooling the circulatory water in the radiator by forcing air therethrough and also embodies means for directly cooling the engine by subjecting the same to the action of a blast of air."
Date: September 3, 1918
Creator: Goodwin, Thomas J.
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