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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: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Dr. Stephen Babcock with an electric centrifuge butterfat tester. |
| Date: | 05 13 1938 |
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| Description: | International PD-80 Marine power unit developed by the company's Nashville branch. |
| 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: | 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: | 10 08 1953 |
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| Description: | Display of Research Products Corporation Filter Fry frying pan covers in a grocery cart. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Front view of "Speck's cotton picker," taken for International Harvester's Engineering Department. |
| 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: | 03 25 1947 |
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| Description: | Metal baby high chair, capable of being disassembled and folded for easy transport. Taken for Halbert M. Wood, WooDick Corporation. |
| 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: | 11 04 1943 |
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| Description: | Closed ladder against trade shelves at Madison-Kipp Corp., 201-231 Waubesa Street. |
| 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: | 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: | 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. |
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