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Thordarson's Multiple Lighting Transformer

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Description: Rendering of a Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company product. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago inventor and manufacturer of electical apparatus, famo...
Photograph

Man Operating Mechanical Arms

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Description: An African American man operating a series of large, mechanical arms to manipulate various bottles and scientific instruments. At the Oak Ridge Atomic Muse...
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Man Testing Engine

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Description: A man is using equipment to test an engine.
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Man in Control Room

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Description: A man is standing at a control board in a room with other equipment. There is a Toledo Scale on the left behind the control board. A window in the wall beh...
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Control Room of Test Cell For Gas Turbine Engines

Date: 1960
Description: Caption reads: "Control Room of Test Cell For Gas Turbine Engines Construction Equipment Eng. Dept." Behind the controls is a window, and set up in the roo...
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Baird Direct Reading Spectrometer

Date: 1960
Description: Caption reads: "Baird Direct Reading Spectrometer."
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Tinius Olsen Automatic Balance Correcting Machine

Date: 1960
Description: Caption reads: "Tinius Olsen Automatic Balance Correcting Machine for Engine Crankshafts."
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Precision Inspection Equipment

Date: 1960
Description: Caption reads: "Precision Inspection Equipment for Ball Bearing Balls; Waveometer and Profilometer Pilator."
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Precision Inspection Equipment

Date: 1960
Description: Caption reads: "Precision Inspection Equipment for Ball Bearing Raceways; Anderometer and Waveometer."
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Precision Equipment for Inspecting Gears

Date: 1960
Description: Slightly elevated view of a room filled with machinery, and shelves along the wall.
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Eastman Kodak Shadograph Inspection Equipment

Date: 1960
Description: Caption reads: "Eastman Kodak Shadograph Inspection Equipment."
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Talyrond Roundness Inspection Equipment

Date: 1960
Description: View of equipment in a room. Caption reads: "Talyrond Roundness Inspection Equipment."
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Truman Bradley on Science Fiction Theatre Set

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Description: Truman Bradley, the host of the Ziv-TV show Science Fiction Theatre, sits on a desk on the set and talks to the camera. He has a skull cap with wires atta...

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