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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: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Cigar box label with portraits of inventors Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, Richard March Hoe. Around the edges are illustratio... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Female model posing with a rake next to a reproduction of Cyrus Hall McCormick's first reaper at International Harvester's "A Century of Progress" Worlds F... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Inventor, B.L. Boboroff, displays his vote recording device to members of the U.S. House of Representatives. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Illustration of a scientist in his lab gazing at a test tube, with a caption in German that translates to "Eureka! I have found it!". |
| Date: | 05 14 1963 |
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| Description: | Lunar trajectory paths and computations on a blackboard are discussed by employees of Milwaukee's Astronautics, Inc. |
| 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. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of an engineer attaching a Transtar nameplate to an International semi-truck during testing. |
| Date: | 03 1909 |
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| Description: | Carl Bates in his airplane. The bottom half of the card shows the beginning of a race between Bates' invention and an automobile. Bates was from Clear Lake... |
| Date: | 06 24 1944 |
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| Description: | Female chemist using C.M. Ambrose Company paint mixer for testing paint, with a man looking on at the Mautz Paint and Varnish Company, 939 East Washington ... |
| Date: | 11 04 1943 |
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| Description: | Closed ladder against trade shelves at Madison-Kipp Corp., 201-231 Waubesa Street. |
| Date: | 04 08 1938 |
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| Description: | Four employees behind the meat counter in the North St. Meat Market (Jacobson's), 227 North Street. |
| Date: | 04 08 1938 |
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| Description: | Four employees behind the meat counter in the North Street Market, 227 North Street. |
| Date: | 10 30 1931 |
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| Description: | A food scientist looking through a microscope at Oscar Mayer. |
| Date: | 05 20 1931 |
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| Description: | View of Anglidle scale in Dodgeville store showing grocer weighing bananas. Merchandise is on display on the counter and on shelves in the background. |
| Date: | 08 16 1929 |
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| Description: | Women work at various work stations in the General Laboratories mailing and filing room, located at 124 South Dickinson Street. |
| Date: | 04 15 1929 |
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| Description: | Man weighing Mautz paint pails at Mautz Paint Company with a new Toledo scale. |
| Date: | 03 28 1929 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from the south east of men constructing the concrete forms for the roof of the addition to the University of Wisconsin-Madison hydraulics lab... |
| Date: | 06 13 1928 |
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| Description: | Man using an old scale at the H.M. Zander Creamery. |
| Date: | 05 20 1928 |
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| Description: | A man weighing a milk can on an old scale at the Pet Milk Company. |
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