Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Studio portrait of Magnus Swenson. He was a Norwegian immigrant who made his name in business and as an inventor. He served on the Wisconsin Capitol Buil... |
Date: | 07 26 1945 |
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Description: | Pfc. Glen Lindsey displays the fly traps he invented to trap thousands of flies in the Truax Field area. |
Date: | 04 10 1945 |
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Description: | A man, possibly inventor Leo Kay, holding a slipover bowling shoe, which attaches to a regular street shoe. |
Date: | 1909 |
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Description: | Quarter-length oval studio portrait of Charles B. Withington, the inventor of the first practical wire binder. Withington was born in Akron, Ohio in 1830, ... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Portrait of John F. Steward, head of International Harvester's Patent Department. Steward had previously worked for the Deering Harvester Company. |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | Unidentified man (inventor?) seated at and showing a foot-powered (?) milking machine. He is outdoors near a stone building. |
Date: | 02 03 1964 |
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Description: | Wisconsin high school student Jeffrey Mattox is shown playing a game of tic-tac-toe against the machine he constructed. A screen shows the squares, and a m... |
Date: | 1919 |
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Description: | Advertisement for Alfred Lawson, declaring that he is "Designer and Navigator of the First Airliner." Background image shows the Lawson Air Liner flying. I... |
Date: | 1955 |
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Description: | View from pier of John "Commodore" Heggestad of Department 40 of Gisholt proudly standing on the pontoon of the "Monona-Mobile" (pontoon boat) on which his... |
Date: | 1932 |
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Description: | Standing, three-quarter length portrait of Edward J. Carlier (1893-1954) posing with an elbow resting on tires and a pencil and papers in his hands. Establ... |
Date: | 08 1954 |
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Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of inventor Oscar Zerk with his hand on his chin. |
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