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| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Sketch of John Muir's clock design.The built clock was a combination of scythes, wheels and arrows. A rough bough of burr oak was set upon a base incrusted... |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | A diagram of a table saw, designed and drawn by John Muir. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Floor plan and seating chart for the Assembly for their first meeting in the East Wing of new Wisconsin State Capitol building. After the completion of th... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Sketch of Boone's Knob and the Kentucky River, where Company A of the 22nd Wisconsin Infantry camped, November-December, 1862. The sketch was drawn by Priv... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | View of the Berlin High School, with children playing and people walking in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A drawing of the American House, 1 North Pinckney Street. It burned down in a fire in 1868. |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | A sketch of a thermometer. Quoting from Muir's autobiography "My Boyhood and Youth" he described the thermometer as "made of an iron rod, about three feet ... |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Watercolor illustration of a barometer designed by John Muir in his boyhood. |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | A watercolor illustration of a combined thermometer, hygrometer, barometer, and pyrometer. |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Muir's illustration of a means to record time by use of a star. He titled the drawing "The star hand rising and setting with the sun all the year". |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | A John Muir sketch of a fancake draught of sawframe with crankshaft in position. Scale two inches per foot. Depth of frame 5 1/2 inches. Speed of cranks... |
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