Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Outdoor view of a car, built by two University of Wisconsin students, which can be driven remotely. |
Date: | 1896 |
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Description: | 40 H.P. experimental tractor. Original caption reads: "40 H.P., Built in 1896." |
Date: | |
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Description: | Faye Geise, wearing a bikini, is standing and posing with the Aqua Form on her head. |
Date: | 1927 |
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Description: | Front view of "Speck's cotton picker," taken for International Harvester's Engineering Department. |
Date: | |
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Description: | Faye Geise, wearing a bikini, is sitting on a lawn and posing with Aqua Form, a local invention. |
Date: | 09 06 1948 |
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Description: | A postcard advertising the invention of the telecamera by William Pitt Fessenden in 1941 in Phlox, Wisconsin. |
Date: | 1931 |
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Description: | Exterior view of the blacksmith shop at Walnut Grove farm where Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884) invented and built his first reaper in 1831. |
Date: | 07 02 1946 |
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Description: | Experimental model steam car, taken from right side, for the Keen Manufacturing Company, 2661 East Washington Avenue. |
Date: | 1873 |
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Description: | Automobile made by J. Wesley Carhart, Methodist minister of Racine, later of Oshkosh, Maryland and Texas. The vehicle was dismantled and the engine used to... |
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: | 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: | 07 02 1946 |
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Description: | Experimental model steam car, taken from left side, for the Keen Manufacturing Company, located at 2661 East Washington Avenue. |
Date: | 1909 |
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Description: | An unidentified man demonstrates his unsuccessful bird-like mechanism, which was part of an experiment in aviation. |
Date: | 1950 |
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Description: | A man sets up a cone-shaped instrument designed to distill fresh water from salt water as he leans out of a small motor boat on the water. |
Date: | 1928 |
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Description: | Crowd seated on the lawn of Agriculture Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison for a ceremony honoring S.M. Babcock, inventor of the butter test. |
Date: | |
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Description: | Faye Geise, wearing a bikini, is standing outdoors and posing with Aqua Form, a local invention. She is standing on colored gravel next to a building with ... |
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: | 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: | 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: | 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 ... |
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