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"Where the Famous Crystals Are Made"

Description: This is a photograph of a building with a sign that says, "Famous Mineral Wells Crystal Plant." There is a hill, covered in trees, behind the building. Writing at the bottom of the image reads: "Where Famous Crystals Are Made." Ed Dismuke, a druggist from Waco, came to Mineral Wells for his health after his family physician told him he only had a "short time" to live. After miraculously regaining his health, which he credited to the mineral waters of his new hometown, he sold water by th… more
Date: 1905?
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Well Stuffing-Box.

Description: Patent for improvements on well stuffing boxes, particularly in packing the vertically reciprocating pump rod and keeping it packed over time, so that the stuffing box doesn't need to be dismantled for manual adjustments.
Date: November 16, 1915
Creator: Church, George W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lubricator.

Description: Patent for new and improved lubricator. The invention is connected to lubricators used in earth boring drills for deep well drilling.
Date: March 29, 1921
Creator: Scott, Floyd L.
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Rotary for Oil-Wells.

Description: Patent for a pipe rotary for use "in sinking oil-wells" (line 10). The patent allows for the power to be applied to the "pipe-sections which constitute the casing of the well" (line 14-15).
Date: February 6, 1906
Creator: Bernard, Horace D.
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Reamer for Oil or Artesian Wells

Description: Patent for "a reamer of novel construction for enlarging the bore or opening of a well when it is required to increase the diameter to receive the casing or for other purpose. The reamer combines a head and a guide, the latter entering the bores, so as to steady and give proper direction to the tool and also prevent the cuttings entering and filling the bore during the process of enlargement" (lines 9-18).
Date: September 8, 1903
Creator: Higgins, Pattillo
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Well-Strainer

Description: Patent for a well strainer with a plurality of little strainers over each intake pipe in a well.
Date: July 27, 1909
Creator: Brown, Arthur Melville & Hunter, Frank
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Pump-Valve

Description: Patent for improvements in a pump valve. Designed to be used in pumping wells, particularly oil wells (Line 11).
Date: January 18, 1921
Creator: Sandlin, James W.
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Sample-Taking Device.

Description: Patent for improvements in Sample-Taking Devices, specially for drilling oil wells with the purpose of taking samples, which can be easily removed from the well without with-drawing the bit or drill stem.
Date: June 8, 1920
Creator: Huston, Sidney H.
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