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| Date: | 06 14 1956 |
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| Description: | Sam Adair of 4380 N Wildwood Av., Shorewood, Wisconsin wearing fan labeled Rheem Personal Portable Air Conditioner around his neck to stay cool. |
| Date: | 01 10 1966 |
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| Description: | Gail Lukas' hair stands on end when she places her hand on a Van de Graalf generator in a demonstration by the Atomic Energy Commission for junior high sch... |
| Date: | 09 29 1962 |
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| Description: | Electronics training at the United School of Electronic Trades gives a student the opportunity to trouble shoot problems. |
| Date: | 08 27 1982 |
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| Description: | Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. provides an opportunity for a university engineering student to have hands-on experience and instruction from a company re... |
| Date: | 12 10 1965 |
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| Description: | Dennis Dokken examines a one microsecond memory system that enabled computers to read a million bits of information per second. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Jean Hoffman looks over a printed circuit board in the foreground, with a map of Madison, Wisconsin on the wall behind her. |
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| Description: | Detail of photograph of the office of the state treasurer, enlarged to show a typical lighting fixture from the third Wisconsin State Capitol. As originall... |
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| Description: | Workers hand wind filament on transformers at Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago inventor and manufacturer of el... |
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| Description: | Workers get transformers ready for distribution in the shipping department at Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago... |
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| Description: | Speed presses stamp out core laminations for transformers at Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago inventor and man... |
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| Description: | The general press room is where sheet metal is made into housing for transformers, and fibre and bakelite insulators are formed at Thordarson Electical Man... |
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| Description: | Workers construct a 1,000,000 volt coil at Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A group of men sit at desks and listen to J. Newman from Deering Works give a lecture on electricity. |
| Date: | 08 13 1952 |
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| Description: | Len Schmitt, former Progressive Party legislator from Merrill, led the Republican opposition to Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's bid for re-election. Schmitt a... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Joseph Henry (1797-1878), Scottish-American scientist. Widely considered one of the greatest scientists of his genera... |
| Date: | 01 23 1926 |
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| Description: | Two men loading merchandise into the covered bed of an International Model 63 truck operated by the E.B. Latham & Company - "Electrical & Radio Merchandise... |
| Date: | 12 1926 |
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| Description: | International Model S truck parked on a residential street. The truck was operated by the Sievert Electric Company. Text on the side of the truck reads: "S... |
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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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| Description: | Zilphia Horton(?) learning to operate a film projector at Highlander Folk School. Three people observe behind her. |
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| Description: | A movie being shown at Highlander Folk School. Still frame reads, "I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half," a Jay Gould quote. G... |
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