History of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry in Southern Louisiana, Volume 3: Samples of interviews and Ethnographic Prefaces (open access)

History of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry in Southern Louisiana, Volume 3: Samples of interviews and Ethnographic Prefaces

This study is about the history and evolution of the offshore oil and gas industry in southern Louisiana in an objective and comprehensive way.
Date: July 2004
Creator: Austin, Diane & McGuire, Tom
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
History of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry in Southern Louisiana, Interim Report: Volume 1. Papers on the Evolving Offshore Industry (open access)

History of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry in Southern Louisiana, Interim Report: Volume 1. Papers on the Evolving Offshore Industry

An historical evaluation and documentation of the offshore oil and gas industry and its impact on the economy of Southern Louisiana from its inception in the early decades of the twentieth century.
Date: July 2004
Creator: Austin, Diane; Carriker, Bob; McGuire, Tom; Pratt, Joseph; Priest, Tyler & Pulsipher, Allan G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Combination-Plow. (open access)

Combination-Plow.

Patent for a combination-plow that "may be combined with facility to form a variety of plows designed for work of different kinds, the present invention being an improvement upon that shown and described in Patent No. 492,462, granted to [the inventor] February 28, 1893" (lines 10-15).
Date: July 14, 1896
Creator: Dean, John Rowe
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Subsurface, High-Speed Current Jets in the Deepwater Region of the Gulf of Mexico: Final Report (open access)

Subsurface, High-Speed Current Jets in the Deepwater Region of the Gulf of Mexico: Final Report

This report is about the study of subsurface high-speed current jets in the deep water of the Gulf of Mexico.
Date: July 2004
Creator: Dimarco, Steven F.; Howard, Matthew K.; Nowlin, Worth D., Jr. & Reid, Robert O.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Labor Migration and the Deepwater Oil Industry (open access)

Labor Migration and the Deepwater Oil Industry

This report is about how local residents respond to the presence of immigrants, in the ways in which migrants supply their labor and employers demand it, and in how migrants socially and economically incorporate into their receiving communities.
Date: July 2004
Creator: Donato, Katherine M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improvement in apparatus for packing and bale cotton. (open access)

Improvement in apparatus for packing and bale cotton.

Patent for improved process and apparatus for baling cotton. Improvement relates to a mechanical device by means of which raw cotton is thoroughly compressed into bales suitable for handling.
Date: July 18, 1876
Creator: Drake, James A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in the Methods of Baling and Packing Cotton (open access)

Improvement in the Methods of Baling and Packing Cotton

Patent for improvement in the methods of baling and packing cotton specifically optimizations in the packing and baling of cotton by avoiding all the mechanical appliances used in forming and securing bales of cotton, such as the press, canvas bagging, band, buckles, and bale-ties.
Date: July 18, 1876
Creator: Drake, James A. & Singer, Edgar C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aerial Gamma Ray and Magnetic Survey, Final Report: Hattiesburg Quadrangle, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana (open access)

Aerial Gamma Ray and Magnetic Survey, Final Report: Hattiesburg Quadrangle, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana

The following report analyzes the aerial gamma ray and magnetic data taken from the Hattiesburg quadrangle in Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana that was compiled in 1980. This report contains a detailed geologic summary, interpretation report, reduced scale copies of all maps and profiles, histograms, and statistical tables for the quadrangle.
Date: July 1980
Creator: EG & G GeoMetrics
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aerial Gamma Ray and Magnetic Survey, Final Report: Jackson Quadrangle, Mississippi and Louisiana (open access)

Aerial Gamma Ray and Magnetic Survey, Final Report: Jackson Quadrangle, Mississippi and Louisiana

The following report analyzes the aerial gamma ray and magnetic data taken from the Jackson quadrangle in Mississippi and Louisiana that was compiled in 1980. This report contains a detailed geologic summary, interpretation report, reduced scale copies of all maps and profiles, histograms, and statistical tables for the quadrangle.
Date: July 1980
Creator: EG & G GeoMetrics
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aerial Gamma Ray and Magnetic Survey, Final Report: Natchez Quadrangle, Mississippi and Louisiana (open access)

Aerial Gamma Ray and Magnetic Survey, Final Report: Natchez Quadrangle, Mississippi and Louisiana

The following report analyzes the aerial gamma ray and magnetic data taken from the Natchez quadrangle in Mississippi and Louisiana that was compiled in 1980. This report contains a detailed geologic summary, interpretation report, reduced scale copies of all maps and profiles, histograms, and statistical tables for the quadrangle.
Date: July 1980
Creator: EG & G GeoMetrics
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Hattiesburg Quadrangle: Average Record Data Listings]

Average record data listings taken during aerial gamma-ray and magnetic surveys of the Hattiesburg quadrangle in Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana.
Date: July 1980
Creator: EG & G GeoMetrics
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Hattiesburg Quadrangle: Single Record Data Listings]

Single record data listings taken during aerial gamma-ray and magnetic surveys of the Hattiesburg quadrangle in Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana.
Date: July 1980
Creator: EG & G GeoMetrics
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Jackson Quadrangle: Average Record Data Listings]

Average record data listings taken during aerial gamma-ray and magnetic surveys of the Jackson quadrangle in Mississippi and Louisiana.
Date: July 1980
Creator: EG & G GeoMetrics
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Jackson Quadrangle: Single Record Data Listings]

Single record data listings taken during aerial gamma-ray and magnetic surveys of the Jackson quadrangle in Mississippi and Louisiana.
Date: July 1980
Creator: EG & G GeoMetrics
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Natchez Quadrangle: Average Record Data Listings]

Average record data listings taken during aerial gamma-ray and magnetic surveys of the Natchez quadrangle in Mississippi and Louisiana.
Date: July 1980
Creator: EG & G GeoMetrics
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Natchez Quadrangle: Single Record Data Listings]

Single record data listings taken during aerial gamma-ray and magnetic surveys of the Natchez quadrangle in Mississippi and Louisiana.
Date: July 1980
Creator: EG & G GeoMetrics
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library
Importance of Zooplankton in the Diets of Blue Runner (Caranx crysos) Near Offshore Petroleum Platforms in the Northern Gulf of Mexico (open access)

Importance of Zooplankton in the Diets of Blue Runner (Caranx crysos) Near Offshore Petroleum Platforms in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

This report is about the importance of Zooplankton in the diet of the blue runner.
Date: July 2003
Creator: Keenan, Sean F. & Benfield, Mark C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Quaternary Geology of Vacherie Salt Dome, North Louisiana Salt Dome Basin: Volume 1 (open access)

The Quaternary Geology of Vacherie Salt Dome, North Louisiana Salt Dome Basin: Volume 1

The following report summarizes the conclusions and what's been done on the work on the Quaternary geological studies on the Vacherie Salt Dome, North Louisiana Salt Dome Basin.
Date: July 1983
Creator: Kolb, Charles R.; Holmes, Joseph C. & Alford, John J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Quaternary Geology of Vacherie Salt Dome, North Louisiana Salt Dome Basin: Volume 2 (open access)

The Quaternary Geology of Vacherie Salt Dome, North Louisiana Salt Dome Basin: Volume 2

The following report provides a compilation of appendices focused on the geological investigations of Vacherie salt dome in the north Louisiana Salt Dome Basin.
Date: July 1983
Creator: Kolb, Charles R.; Holmes, Joseph C. & Alford, John J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Disaster Assistance after Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Wilma, Gustav, and Ike (open access)

Federal Disaster Assistance after Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Wilma, Gustav, and Ike

Report that provides information on federal financial assistance provided to the Gulf States after major disasters were declared in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas in response to the widespread destruction that resulted from Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma in 2005 and Hurricanes Gustav and Ike in 2008. This includes a brief summary of each hurricane and a discussion concerning federal to state cost-shares.
Date: July 5, 2013
Creator: Lindsay, Bruce R. & Nagel, Jared Conrad
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
History of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry in Southern Louisiana: Interim Report, Volume 2. Bayou Lafourche-An Oral History of the Development of the Oil and Gas Industry (open access)

History of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry in Southern Louisiana: Interim Report, Volume 2. Bayou Lafourche-An Oral History of the Development of the Oil and Gas Industry

This report contains several interviews of individuals who were employed by the oil and gas industry since its conception.
Date: July 2004
Creator: McGuire, Tom
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Thinking critically about models used to predict emergency evacuation in Gulf Coast states (open access)

Thinking critically about models used to predict emergency evacuation in Gulf Coast states

Report examining evacuation procedures using existing forecasting models in the gulf coast states and discusses ways to improve the use of forecasting models by government officials.
Date: July 2010
Creator: Moseley, Brandon; Wynn, Garlin & Lewis, Carol Abel
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Carbureter. (open access)

Carbureter.

Patent for a new and improved carburetor. This design calls for "the apparatus [to be] submerged in water for the purpose of equalizing the temperature of the carbureting-liquid, and thereby imparting a more uniform illuminating quality to the gas; also obviating the danger of explosion from access of flame to the exterior of the apparatus" (para. 2).
Date: July 18, 1876
Creator: Pollard, James M. & Barton, Wallace R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Report of the Red River Compact Commission: 1984 (open access)

Report of the Red River Compact Commission: 1984

Report of the Red River Compact Commission describing the approved budgets, audits, and rules and regulations during the fiscal year 1984.
Date: July 1985
Creator: Red River Compact Commission (U.S.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History