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Laboratory Experiment at McCormick Works

Date: 04 05 1912
Description: Laboratory experiment set up in a factory building. There is a backdrop behind the table which is holding glass vessels and tubes.
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Dr. Oliver P. Watts in Laboratory

Date: 1949
Description: A man stands over a device, which he is inspecting. Caption reads: "Madison, Wis. 1949(?). Prof. Oliver P. Watts, retired distinguished authority on the co...
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Women Scientists Inspire High School Girls

Date: 05 25 1959
Description: Working with a high school student in a U.W. Department of Medical Biology chemical research laboratory is Dr. Billie Padgett, left. At right Lucy helps to...
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Women Scientists Inspire High School Girls

Date: 05 31 1959
Description: Demonstrating the Navy Research laboratory's electronic computer to a high school student is, seated, experimental physicist, Dr. Anneke Levelt. Dr. Levelt...
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Women Scientists Inspire High School Girls

Date: 05 25 1959
Description: Demonstrating a research procedure to high school female students at a U.W. chemistry research laboratory is Dr. Carolyn Abrahams, left. Barbara Swanson, ...
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Women Scientists Inspire High School Girls

Date: 05 25 1959
Description: Working with two West High students in a chemical research laboratory of the U. W. Medical School, is Dr. Anna Maria Williams, center. At left, Mary Sedgwi...
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Edison In His Workshop

Date: 08 02 1879
Description: A drawing of Thomas Edison seated at a desk working on an experiment. Caption at bottom reads: "Edison In His Workshop."
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Biological Laboratory at Signy Island

Date: 1965
Description: Elevated view of the Biological Laboratory in Antarctica.
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George Wiley as a Chemistry Professor

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Description: Activist and science teacher George Wiley wearing a white lab coat and a bow tie while teaching a chemistry class.
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Architectural Rendering of Ft. Wayne Engineering Building

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Description: Architectural rendering of an aerial view of the Ft. Wayne Engineering building.
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Aerial View of Ft. Wayne Engineering Building

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Description: Caption reads: "Ft. Wayne Engineering Building."
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Man in Control Room

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Description: A man is standing at a control board in a room with other equipment. There is a Toledo Scale on the left behind the control board. A window in the wall beh...
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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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Testing Truck Chassis

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Description: Two men are working indoors testing the chassis of a truck.
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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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Proving Ground

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Description: Caption reads: "Close by International Harvester Company's mammoth new motor truck engineering building and laboratories is the Fort Wayne proving ground, ...
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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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Precision Inspection Equipment

Date: 1960
Description: Caption reads: "Precision Inspection Equipment for Ball Bearing Balls; Waveometer and Profilometer Pilator."
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Experimental Crawler Tractor

Date: 1960
Description: Slightly elevated view of three men working with an experimental crawler tractor indoors. Caption reads: "Experimental Crawler Tractor Equipped with a Turb...
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Cold Test Room

Date: 1960
Description: A man in the foreground on the left is holding a telephone receiver while talking with a man who is holding another telephone receiver while standing insid...

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