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. |
Date: | 03 13 1947 |
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Description: | Sheldon Wengel and Howard La Court demonstrating a photographer's remote flash with a woman model. |
Date: | 1931 |
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Description: | Display in the window of the Hudson Bay Company department store in Alberta, Canada, celebrating the centennial anniversary of the reaper's invention. |
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Description: | Clock on display at the Wisconsin Historical Society. The clock was made by John Muir while a student at the University of Wisconsin in 1860. |
Date: | 1909 |
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Description: | An unidentified man demonstrates his unsuccessful bird-like mechanism, which was part of an experiment in aviation. |
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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: | 10 19 1931 |
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Description: | Edison kinetascope, patented in 1897, one of the first motion picture projectors invented by Thomas A. Edison. It is hand cranked and chain driven. |
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: | Drawing of John Muir's invention, the student desk clock, scale 3 inches per foot. The clock lighted his lamp and fire and opened the right book for him to... |
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: | 05 17 1916 |
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Description: | Men gathered outdoors around a cotton picking machine exhibited at the National Implement and Vehicle Association Meeting. |
Date: | 1931 |
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Description: | Reverse side of the International Harvester reaper centennial medallion (or coin) showing the reaper in use, and the words: "Centennial of the Reaper, 1891... |
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: | 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: | 02 1862 |
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Description: | Tintype of a model gun intended to accompany a patent application. The five-barreled gun, invented by William Bradford, is mounted on wheels. |
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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. |
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: | 1928 |
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Description: | Advertisement celebrating 100 years of International Harvester history. Features inset drawings of McCormick's first reaper in 1831 and "Harvester's first ... |
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