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Refrigeration Test Department

Date: 1944
Description: W.F. Borgerd, refrigeration engineer of International Harvester Company, looks at a milk cooler. The original caption reads: "W.F. Borgerd, refrigeration e...
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Seed Company Grounds

Date: 06 23 1936
Description: Workers in trial fields of the Leonard Seed Company, with the processing plant in the background.
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Experimental Farmall Tractor

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Description: Early model experimental Farmall tractor (1918-1922) shown here with additional equipment, including what appears to be a radio attached. Additional enclos...
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International Steam Tractor Engine

Date: 1921
Description: Close-up of International Harvester experimental steam engine.
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Ear Test for Ears of Corn

Date: 1916
Description: Group of men working inside a large room with samples of corn. Original caption: "Several hundred bushels were given six kernels every ear test, the averag...
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Man Working in Creamery

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Description: A man is weighing milk and taking a sample for testing in acid in butter fat, creamery, East Aurora, N.Y.., U.S.A." Lantern slide.
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Ice-Covered Truck in Cold Lab

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Description: A man is looking through a window towards another man in a cold lab testing a truck. Caption reads: "A parka-clad engineer braves thirty below zero tempera...
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Rendering of Motor Truck Research and Engineering Laboratory

Date: 01 23 1950
Description: Caption reads: "Shown in the above artist's rendering is the new $6,500,000 motor truck research and engineering laboratory which the International Harvest...
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Man Testing Engine

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Description: A man is using equipment to test an engine.
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One Million Volt X-Ray Machine

Date: 1960
Description: A group of men are standing underneath the X-ray machine which is suspended from the ceiling. Caption reads: "One Million Volt X-Ray Machine at Manufacturi...
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Tractor Pushed Corn Picker at McCormick Works

Date: 06 27 1919
Description: A man is sitting under an umbrella on a tractor-pushed Corn Picker in factory yard. Perhaps for research and development. A group of men are watching and s...
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Treadmill Area — Simulated Field Testing

Date: 1959
Description: Dual image of a man working indoors for simulated field testing, and an image of a tractor attached to chains at the Farm Equipment Research and Engineerin...

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