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Laboratory Experiment

Date: 1928
Description: Professor Hull conducting an experiment at the Psychological laboratory of the University of Wisconsin.
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Electric Hair

Date: 01 10 1966
Description: Gail Lukas' hair stands on end when she places her hand on a Van de Graalf generator in a demonstration by the Atomic Energy Commission for junior high sch...
Drawing

Dash Coil with Switch

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Description: Rendering of a Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company product. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago inventor and manufacturer of electical apparatus, famo...
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Thordarson's Multiple Lighting Transformer

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Description: Rendering of a Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company product. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago inventor and manufacturer of electical apparatus, famo...
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Lamp or Exploring Coil

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Description: Rendering of a Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company product. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago inventor and manufacturer of electical apparatus, famo...
Drawing

Rhumkorff Coils

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Description: Rendering of a Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company product. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago inventor and manufacturer of electical apparatus, famo...
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High Voltage Test Transformers

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Description: Rendering of a Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company product. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago inventor and manufacturer of electical apparatus, famo...
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Man Operating Mechanical Arms

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Description: An African American man operating a series of large, mechanical arms to manipulate various bottles and scientific instruments. At the Oak Ridge Atomic Muse...
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Customers in General Store

Date: 1939
Description: Two women and a girl stand near a counter inside a general store as a man shows them a product. A cat and a dog sleep on the floor in the background, and a...
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Tuberculosis Research in Laboratory

Date: 11 15 1950
Description: University of Wisconsin professor J.W. Williams, and Mrs. Winifred Saunders, research associate, work with an electrophoresis instrument in a laboratory in...
Historical Essay

Early Kelvinator Home Microwave

Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story
Kelvinator Microwave “Radarange” thought to be the first home microwave oven used in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, 1956. (Museum object #1985.30)
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Game Farm Laboratory

Date: 10 1935
Description: A man wearing a white surgical gown and gloves is standing at a surgical table. He is performing a necropsy on a small animal. There is a double basin stan...
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Biologist at Work

Date: 1938
Description: Superintendent of Biology Edward "Doc" Schneberger, who is wearing a long white coat, is sitting on a stool and looking through a microscope at a small tab...
Postcard

Telecamera Postcard

Date: 09 06 1948
Description: A postcard advertising the invention of the telecamera by William Pitt Fessenden in 1941 in Phlox, Wisconsin.
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Air Quality Monitoring

Date: 01 15 1959
Description: Robert Butler, a public health technologist with the city health department, is examining a used filter. He is atop the second floor of the City-County bui...
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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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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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Control Room of Test Cell For Gas Turbine Engines

Date: 1960
Description: Caption reads: "Control Room of Test Cell For Gas Turbine Engines Construction Equipment Eng. Dept." Behind the controls is a window, and set up in the roo...
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Baird Direct Reading Spectrometer

Date: 1960
Description: Caption reads: "Baird Direct Reading Spectrometer."
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Tinius Olsen Automatic Balance Correcting Machine

Date: 1960
Description: Caption reads: "Tinius Olsen Automatic Balance Correcting Machine for Engine Crankshafts."

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