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Electronic Voltametric Apparatus

Date: 08 27 1982
Description: Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. provides an opportunity for a university engineering student to have hands-on experience and instruction from a company re...
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Sheet Metal Press Room

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Description: The general press room is where sheet metal is made into housing for transformers, and fibre and bakelite insulators are formed at Thordarson Electical Man...
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Black River Falls Powerhouse

Date: 1910
Description: Man in the interior of the Black River Falls powerhouse.
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Electric Motor for Badger Manufacturing Company

Date: 11 12 1945
Description: Electric motor in use at the Badger Manufacturing Company.
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Electric Lighting Attachment for Farmall Tractor

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Description: Parts for an electric lighting attachment (Robert Bosch "No-Battery" Type) for a Farmall tractor.
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Erecting Generators in Power House at Power Dam

Date: 08 04 1914
Description: An interior view of the power house at the Prairie du Sac dam, showing assembly of the generators, identified by the manufacturer, the Allis-Chalmers Compa...
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Generators in Power House at Power Dam

Date: 11 03 1914
Description: Interior view of the power house with the Allis-Chalmers generators installed.
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Man Standing by Generators in Power House

Date: 1915
Description: Elevated view of a man standing near the generators inside the power house at the Prairie du Sac dam. The base of the generators is marked with the name of...
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Generators in Power House

Date: 1915
Description: A man is standing on a staircase overlooking an operating generator in the power house at the Prairie du Sac dam.
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Man Running Machinery

Date: 1915
Description: A worker standing at the controls of a generator, most likely in the temporary power house at the Prairie du Sac dam site. The steam driven generator produ...
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Conduits for Switchboard in Power House

Date: 07 02 1913
Description: Workers pause while installing a maze of conduit for the switchboard in the power house. The construction camp is to the left.
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Test of a Prototype

Date: 11 08 1961
Description: A prototype being tested in the research test lab of the Falk Corporation. Original Falk caption reads, "Temperature lube test, 8RT3 Prototype. Set up of l...
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Street Lighting

Date: 1934
Description: View down road of overhead lighting equipment of the T.M.E.R. and L. Company, which, at the time had a proposal to be replaced by more modern lighting. Th...
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Preparing St. Paul Works for Gun Manufacture

Date: 09 19 1941
Description: Factory workers use a crane mounted on a truck to unload a transformer on the loading dock of International Harvester's St. Paul Works. Original caption re...
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Man Watching Motor Load at Indianapolis Works

Date: 1940
Description: Factory worker at International Harvester's Indianapolis Works (Truck Engine Works). Original caption states: "Plug in type ammeters prove to be better pro...
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International Truck with Trailer

Date: 1939
Description: Two men speak to one another as a woman wearing an apron enters a trailer used by the Ohio Edison Company. The trailer is attached to an International D-2 ...
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Springfield Works Conveyor System

Date: 1937
Description: A conveyor system suspended from the ceiling at International Harvester's Springfield Works transports truck parts across the workroom floor. There are sky...
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Conveyor System at Springfield Works

Date: 1937
Description: A conveyor system suspended from the ceiling moves truck parts across the floor at International Harvester's Springfield Works factory. Rows of large lamps...
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Assembly Line at Springfield Works

Date: 1937
Description: A group of men wearing overcoats and hats are standing on either side of an International truck on the assembly line at International Harvester's Springfie...
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Orlando Utilities Truck

Date: 1935
Description: An International C-1 pickup truck parked at a loading area of the Orlando Utilities Commission building. Three men stand inside the building to load what a...

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