Automatic Fuse Plug (open access)

Automatic Fuse Plug

Patent for "improvements in automatic fuse plugs" (lines 12-12). These are "adapted to be successively engaged by a swinging contact arm" (lines 16-17).
Date: May 19, 1914
Creator: Bowman, Levi M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Evolution of the CareerAdvance Program in Tulsa, Oklahoma (open access)

The Evolution of the CareerAdvance Program in Tulsa, Oklahoma

This is the third report focusing on the implementation of CareerAdvance, a program for training parents of Head Start and Early Head Start children in order provide low-income individuals with opportunities to seek work in the healthcare industry.
Date: October 2012
Creator: Smith, Tara C.; Douglas, Rachel V. & Glover, Robert W.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Expanding the CareerAdvance Program in Tulsa, Oklahoma (open access)

Expanding the CareerAdvance Program in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Report discussing the CareerAdvance program, which is designed as a two-generation strategy to lift people out of poverty.
Date: January 2012
Creator: Glover, Robert W.; King, Christopher T. & Smith, Tara Carter
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
History of Water Flooding of Oil Sands in Oklahoma (open access)

History of Water Flooding of Oil Sands in Oklahoma

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines on the oil production from water injection methods. As noted in the introduction, "it is the purpose of this report to present data such as volume of oil produced monthly, volume of water injected monthly, spacing of wells, number of injection wells and oil wells, and other such pertinent information" (p. 5). This report includes tables, graphs, maps, and illustrations.
Date: November 1943
Creator: Taliaferro, David Benjamin & Logan, David M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Method of Sealing the Walls of Deep Wells (open access)

Method of Sealing the Walls of Deep Wells

Patent for a new and useful method of dealing the walls of deep wells in which the means for lining oil wells by the use of the customary metal casing is avoided, the cost is very materially reduced, and numerous expenses and failures are avoided.
Date: November 29, 1921
Creator: Nolan, William E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method of Sealing The Walls of Oil-Wells (open access)

Method of Sealing The Walls of Oil-Wells

Patent for a method of sealing oil wells to avoid applying casing to the wells to prevent leakage, seepage, or cave-ins.
Date: December 7, 1920
Creator: Nolan, William E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History