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| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man demonstrates his unsuccessful bird wing-like mechanism, which was part of an experiment in aviation. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick over an illustration of ... |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Sketch of John Muir's clock design.The built clock was a combination of scythes, wheels and arrows. A rough bough of burr oak was set upon a base incrusted... |
| Date: | 06 1914 |
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| Description: | The Aerodome, invented by Samuel Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, as reconstructed by Glenn Curtiss at Hammondsport. |
| Date: | 07 02 1909 |
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| Description: | Test flight of the bi-plane invented by Ray Zorn of Dayton, Ohio, who later resided in Waukesha, Wisconsin. |
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| Description: | Dr. Edward Ashael Birge reading a sun machine inside a car. In 1875 Dr. Birge first came to teach natural history at the University of Wisconsin, and remai... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | The monoplane glider built and flown by Carl S. Bates of Clear Lake, Iowa. During the previous year Bates had built a bi-plane glider. |
| Date: | 05 14 1927 |
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| Description: | Farmer and mechanic F.L. Zybach, 32, standing beside his invention -- a Fordson tractor with a front-mounted plow equipped for "driverless operation." Orig... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Front cover of an advertising catalog for Aultman, Miller and Company, manufacturers of agricultural equipment. Features a chromolithograph of a woman sit... |
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| Description: | A woman demonstrates the use of a homemade bee catcher on a tree in her yard. |
| Date: | 07 31 1941 |
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| Description: | People gathered around a Farmall Regular tractor on the farm of Clarence L. Dauberman. Original caption reads: "Sydney G. McAllister, chairman, executive c... |
| Date: | 07 31 1941 |
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| Description: | Earl C. Smith, president of the Illinois Agricultural Association, speaks into a microphone at an event to honor Mr. Clarence Dauberman for creating the fi... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Side view of three men using a McCormick marsh-type hand-binding harvester in a field. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A man is using a team of two horses to pull a McCormick reaper in a field, while other women and men are raking the cut grain. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A group of five men are standing and sitting around a McCormick grain binder. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Run-down building with a stone chimney in a rural landscape. The photograph is identified as "Steele's Tavern." Cyrus McCormick successfully demonstrated h... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man demonstrates his unsuccessful bird-like mechanism, which was part of an experiment in aviation. |
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| Description: | Jack Penewell of Madison, originator of the twelve string Hawaiian guitar (or so his business card says), with another musician tentatively identified as T... |
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| Description: | Faye Geise, wearing a bikini, is sitting on a lawn and posing with Aqua Form, a local invention. |
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