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Oil-Tank.

Description: Patent for an oil tank that is fire proof and will not explode completely if it is struck by lightning.
Date: July 18, 1911
Creator: Price, James Bain
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Oil fields]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: July 29, 1983, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 55 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Pump-Jack.

Description: Patent for improvements to pump jacks. Simple gravity actuated devices are provided to aid the power mechanism of the pump jack, resulting in smoother, more even operation.
Date: July 15, 1919
Creator: Dayton, William L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Device for Unscrewing and Withdrawing Pipe.

Description: Patent for a device for unscrewing and withdrawing pipe from wells, mines, or other similar uses. This tool is attached at the end of a drill stem and threaded in the ordinary right hand direction to unscrew and withdraw.
Date: July 29, 1919
Creator: Fletcher, Harold W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[News Script: East Texas field]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Texas railroad commission which hears testimony on two separate requests dealing with the vast East Texas oil field.
Date: July 31, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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