Date: | 1867 |
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Description: | A diagram of McCormick's cultivator-reaper, which was patented in 1845. The illustration, titled "The Cultivator" depicts a man using a rake to remove the ... |
Date: | 1909 |
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Description: | Wilbur Wright, in the bowler hat, preparing the Flyer for the conclusion of the test required to win a U.S. Army contract. The 1908 demonstration had been ... |
Date: | 1901 |
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Description: | Wilbur Wright (standing, second from the right) with Edward C. Huffaker, Octave Chanute, and George Spratt in the workshed. Chanute was a special visitor f... |
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Description: | Dr. Edward Ashael Birge reading a sun machine inside a car. In 1875 Dr. Birge first came to teach natural history at the University of Wisconsin, and remai... |
Date: | 10 10 1902 |
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Description: | Wilbur Wright gliding down the steep slope of Big Kill Devil Hill at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Much of the Wright Brothers' success derived from the fact... |
Date: | 03 1909 |
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Description: | Carl Bates in his airplane. The bottom half of the card shows the beginning of a race between Bates' invention and an automobile. Bates was from Clear Lake... |
Date: | 03 1909 |
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Description: | The airplane invented by Carl S. Bates on the beach at Daytona Beach, Florida. Coverage of this event by a local newspaper noted that the advantages of Bat... |
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: | 1909 |
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Description: | Five men pose with the first successful four-wheel drive vehicle, which was made in Clintonville in 1909. The inventor, Otto Zachow, is the man seated at t... |
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: | 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: | 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: | 1925 |
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Description: | Photographic illustration of two men cutting wood with a saw powered by horses on a treadmill. The horses and treadmill were added by an artist's drawing. |
Date: | 07 31 1941 |
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Description: | People gathered around a Farmall Regular tractor on the farm of Clarence L. Dauberman. Original caption reads: "Sydney G. McAllister, chairman, executive c... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Side view of a man using a McCormick wire binder pulled by three horses to work in a field. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Side view of three men using a McCormick marsh-type hand-binding harvester in a field. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | A man is using a team of two horses to pull a McCormick reaper in a field, while other women and men are raking the cut grain. |
Date: | 1899 |
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Description: | A group of five men are standing and sitting around a McCormick grain binder. |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | A man is sitting behind the wheel of what appears to be an experimental tractor. The location is staged for a photo shoot, with a white cloth hanging in fr... |
Date: | 1955 |
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Description: | View from pier of John "Commodore" Heggestad of Department 40 of Gisholt proudly standing on the pontoon of the "Monona-Mobile" (pontoon boat) on which his... |
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