Date: | 02 11 1948 |
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Description: | A Thompson boat with detachable Berg boat wheels on the stern and an Evinrude outboard motor. Taken for the Kulzick Advertizing Agency. A man is standing i... |
Date: | 05 24 1945 |
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Description: | Bennie Berg standing on a lake shore dock next to a Hoover Boat Line boat. Also shows his invention to aid in launching, the Berg's Inc. Boat Roller. |
Date: | 04 02 1946 |
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Description: | Mr. Mullarkey (probably Leo R. Mullarkey) standing beside Glider Home Laundry and Dry Cleaning Agitator, Washer and steam garment press with Vel Colgate so... |
Date: | 01 27 1947 |
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Description: | Dr. John H. Gieselman, osteopathic physician, shown at a microscope. Dr. Gieselman often designed his own diagnostic equipment. He invented a new mechani... |
Date: | 03 13 1947 |
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Description: | Sheldon Wengel or Howard La Court at workbench creating a photographer's remote flash. A man is standing in the corner with his arms raised, perhaps holdin... |
Date: | 1925 |
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Description: | Photographic illustration of two men cutting wood with a saw powered by horses on a treadmill. The horses and treadmill were added by an artist's drawing. |
Date: | 02 27 1956 |
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Description: | Olaf Hanson, operator of a meat counter, displays his invention: a plastic mold to assemble city chicken on wood skewers. |
Date: | 1931 |
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Description: | Front side of International Harvester's reaper centennial medallion (or coin), featuring an image of Cyrus Hall McCormick, the words: "Inventor of the Reap... |
Date: | 1931 |
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Description: | Front side of a coin made for International Harvester to celebrate the "Reaper Centennial." The event commemorated the one hundred year anniversary of the ... |
Date: | 10 18 1879 |
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Description: | Depiction of Edison's Electric Generator in the weekly journal of practical information, art, science, chemistry and manufactures. It is an electrical gene... |
Date: | |
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Description: | Portrait of Arthur Pratt Warner of Beloit, Wisconsin, about 1950, with a model of his first speedometer. Even today, most automobiles are equipped with sp... |
Date: | 1909 |
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Description: | Five men pose with the first successful four-wheel drive vehicle, which was made in Clintonville in 1909. The inventor, Otto Zachow, is the man seated at t... |
Date: | 1880 |
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Description: | Engraved portrait of J. Wesley Carhart of Racine, Methodist minister, physician, and inventor of a steam-powered automobile in 1871. Although impractical, ... |
Date: | 12 16 1951 |
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Description: | At left, Lynn Hazelbaker is shown demonstrating the winning entry of the Madison Youth Council's rat bait box building contest built by Edward Ripp, age 14... |
Date: | 1946 |
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Description: | Colonel Robert S. Allen, a well-known journalist before World War II, lost his arm while on active duty in Europe. He is seated here with Dr Anton Dvorak, ... |
Date: | 04 2014 |
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Description: | View of the display case of John Muir's mechanical clock desk, which is on the ground floor of the Wisconsin Historical Society. |
Date: | 01 16 1961 |
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Description: | Portrait of Clark L. Fry, of rural Necedah, who is charged with using a scheme to defraud in Judge Patrick T. Stone's United States District Court. The cha... |
Date: | 1909 |
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Description: | Wilbur Wright, in the bowler hat, preparing the Flyer for the conclusion of the test required to win a U.S. Army contract. The 1908 demonstration had been ... |
Date: | 03 1909 |
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Description: | The airplane invented by Carl S. Bates on the beach at Daytona Beach, Florida. Coverage of this event by a local newspaper noted that the advantages of Bat... |
Date: | 1850 |
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Description: | Quarter-length portrait of inventor Obed Hussey (1782?-1860) as it appeared in W.T. Hutchinson's biography of Cyrus Hall McCormick. He is wearing an eye pa... |
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