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| 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: | 1880 |
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| Description: | It was in this shop that Christopher Sholes, inventor of the typewriter, did much of his work on various inventions. This photograph may be as early as th... |
| 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: | Front cover of an advertising catalog for Aultman, Miller and Company, manufacturers of agricultural equipment. Features a chromolithograph of a woman sit... |
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| Description: | Faye Geise, wearing a bikini, is standing and posing with the Aqua Form on her head. |
| Date: | 10 08 1953 |
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| Description: | Display of Research Products Corporation Filter Fry frying pan covers in a grocery cart. |
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| Description: | Faye Geise, wearing a bikini, is sitting on a lawn and posing with Aqua Form, a local invention. |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Color poster printed to honor the 60th anniversary of Alfred Lawson's flight from Milwaukee to Washington, D.C. The poster includes a portrait of Lawson a... |
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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: | 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. |
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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: | 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: | 07 31 1941 |
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| Description: | Earl C. Smith, president of the Illinois Agricultural Association, speaks into a microphone at an event to honor Mr. Clarence Dauberman for creating the fi... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The Curtiss Pusher owned by Arthur Pratt Warner of Beloit, the first man to fly in Wisconsin and the first person to purchase an airplane. Slightly below ... |
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