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[News Script: Frenchmen]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a young French man was was lving 120-feet underground in a cave in Del Rio and conducting experiments for seven months.
Date: September 4, 1972, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Automatic Valve

Description: Patent for an automatic valve that uses a lever to open and close quickly, with illustrations.
Date: November 20, 1906
Creator: Pinkerton, Henry S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Valve

Description: Patent for an automatic valve, "designed to automatically control the water-supply to a suitable reservoir through the operation of a float (lines 9-11), with illustrations.
Date: April 25, 1905
Creator: Pinkerton, Henry S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Billiard-Ball Holder.

Description: Patent for a simple billiard-ball holder that is meant to "provide a means for holding the balls when not in use, so that they will not fall out of the holder to the floor, and means to provide for the tilting of the holder out of line, so that the balls will roll to the opposite end, and out of the opening into the triangle, thereby saving a good part of the time in taking the balls out of the holder" (lines 20-27).
Date: July 11, 1893
Creator: Rohrbach, Gabriel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Car and Air-Brake Coupling.

Description: Patent for a simple, practical, and easy to use car coupling and in air brake coupling that automatically couples cars together. It can be easily uncoupled from the top or sides of cars. When it couples, it also connects the cars' air pipes together.
Date: November 14, 1893
Creator: Rohrbach, Gabriel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for a car-coupling "which will afford means to automatically connect cars and release them in a safe manner from the roof or side of a car" (lines 9-11) and to adapt the improved coupling for connection with one of the ordinary type, including illustrations.
Date: November 3, 1891
Creator: Rohrbach, Gabriel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Door.

Description: Patent for a sliding car door and the frame that allows its sliding mechanism to work.
Date: September 7, 1915
Creator: Sneddon, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[News Script: Michel Siffre]

Description: A photocopy of a script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Michel Siffre, a French scientist, performing an experiment relating to adaptability by staying in a cave near Del Rio, Texas for six months.
Date: September 4, 1972, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Car-Axle Lubricator

Description: Patent for improving parts of the journal box in car axles to simplify construction and enable access to the interior of the journal box for replacement or otherwise.
Date: May 18, 1920
Creator: Urbeita, Jose M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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