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[News Clip: Man trapped]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a construction accident in Dallas.
Date: April 21, 1961
Duration: 1 minute 29 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Dry Dock Cradle at B and B Shipyard]

Description: Photograph of a dry dock cradle out of the water at B and B Shipyard in Beaumont, Texas. wo small cranes are parked in the background. Lumber litters the ground surrounding the dry dock. Chains hang from posts attached to the cradle.
Date: April 1973
Creator: Lewis, David P.
Partner: Lamar University
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[News Clip: Building construction]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about some construction taking place at a building.
Date: April 15, 1959
Duration: 55 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Telescope]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a new telescope at the Convair recreation area southwest of Fort Worth.
Date: April 16, 1959
Duration: 1 minute 26 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Improvement in Stalk-Pullers.

Description: Patent for an "improved machine designed especially for pulling cotton-stalks, but which may be used with advantage for pulling other stalks, weeds, &c., and which shall be so constructed as to clear itself of the stalks as they are pulled" (para. 4).
Date: April 11, 1876
Creator: Butler, George W. & O'Connell, Timothy P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mechanical Power.

Description: Patent for a machine that "has relation to mechanical powers designed for stump-pulling, hoisting heavy weights, &c.; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts" (lines 21-24).
Date: April 29, 1884
Creator: Gray, William Smith
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Model C-6 Transporter, off-road

Description: Photograph of a Model C-6 Transporter demonstrating its off-road capabilities. The Transporter was powered by a large 300-hp Buda Super Diesel engine, according to author Eric Orlemann. Its generator provided power to electric traction motors in all six wheels. Its load capacity was 35 tons.
Date: April 6, 1956
Creator: R.G. LeTourneau, Inc.
Partner: LeTourneau University Margaret Estes Library

Tree Roller No. 2

Description: Photograph of LeTourneau's Tree Roller No. 2. (A very similar photo is thus described in "R.G. LeTourneau Heavy Equipment: The Electric Drive Era," by Eric Orlemann. After being field tested in Longview, Texas, this unit was shipped to Tournavista, Peru, to be used in land clearing projects there for the LeTourneau Foundation mission. The overall weight of the tree roller was about 100 tons.
Date: April 8, 1954
Creator: R.G. LeTourneau, Inc.
Partner: LeTourneau University Margaret Estes Library
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