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| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Lillian Sholes, demonstrating a prototype typewriter invented by her father, Christopher Latham Sholes. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Dr. Stephen Babcock with an electric centrifuge butterfat tester. |
| Date: | 02 17 1913 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Thomas Alva Edison in his lab where he worked on his "talking moving machine." |
| Date: | 09 29 1945 |
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| Description: | Little boy at child's training desk with bench seat. |
| Date: | 11 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Emil Andel of the American Bowling Congress demonstrates an automatic foul detector in a bowling alley. |
| Date: | 09 29 1945 |
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| Description: | Toddler sitting at child's training desk, with lid closed. |
| Date: | 09 29 1945 |
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| Description: | Young girl seated at child's training desk with top open showing blackboard. |
| 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: | 04 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Workman riveting two filter frames together horizontally. Taken for Research Products, 1011-1015 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 04 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Workman riveting filter frames together in a L shape, taken for Research Products, 1011-1015 East Washington Avenue. |
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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... |
| Date: | 01 11 1954 |
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| Description: | A man displaying a Research Products Corporation rack for Filter Fry frying pan covers, "Takes the spatter out of kitchen frying." |
| 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: | 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. |
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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: | 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: | 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: | 04 09 1948 |
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| Description: | Police Officer Lester Shore, holding a "River Shiner" fishing lure, for which he holds a patent. It is a casting plug that has a metal lip and shaft and im... |
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