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[News Script: Gas Wells]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about oil drilling near Bridgeport at a location called "Morris-Gill Number One."
Date: September 16, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Tease]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering teasers of news stories about an oil well and the Fulgham investigation.
Date: October 27, 1972
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Check-Valve

Description: Patent for a valve used for well drilling designed to be confine fluid around the pipe. Illustrations included.
Date: September 28, 1909
Creator: Kreiter, Richard F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oil Well Blows; Oil Well Blows

Description: 1 copy negative of 2 consecutive images. The first is of a gushing oil well with smoke coming out of it's base. The second is of two men next to a car watching as smoke rises out from the bottom of the oil well as it still gushes oil.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Oil Well Blows; Oil Well Blows

Description: 1 copy negative of 2 consecutive images. The first is of black stack of oil gushing from a well. The second is of the same oil well but with a larger amount of oil gushing from the well's center and being sprayed onto the ground.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Oil Well Drilling

Description: Copy negative of two pictures of an oil rig. In the first, one automobile is parked at the bottom right, and several more are parked in the background on the left. In the second picture, a small group of people are standing on the right at the base of the well.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Bit for Well-Drilling Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a rotary expansion bit for use with well-drilling apparatuses. The bit can be adjusted without removing the well tubing, and can drill a hole large than the tubing in order to insert casing sections.
Date: April 22, 1902
Creator: Sloan, James W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Antifriction-Device-For-Sucker-Rods.

Description: Patent for an antifriction device designed to protect the rod (sucker rod), rope, or coupler from wear. A sucker rod joins the components of a piston pump in an oil well.
Date: November 4, 1902
Creator: Black, William Leslie
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Back-Pressure Valve

Description: Patent for a back pressure valve for well drilling which may be "removed from the well with facility and despatch" (lines 18-20).
Date: January 18, 1910
Creator: Neighbors, Charles C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Casing Point or Strainer.

Description: Patent for casing point or strainer "particularly adapted for use in oil and Artesian wells... which will permit free circulation of the liquid around the lower portion of the casing and free and easy entrance of the same into the casing, and yet will prevent entrance of sand and gravel into the casing" (Lines 12-22).
Date: May 13, 1902
Creator: Carlson, Andrew Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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