Date: | 1872 |
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Description: | Lillian Sholes, demonstrating a prototype typewriter invented by her father, Christopher Latham Sholes. |
Date: | 1919 |
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Description: | Inventor, B.L. Boboroff, displays his vote recording device to members of the U.S. House of Representatives. |
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: | 03 13 1947 |
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Description: | June D. (Mrs. Sheldon) Wengel serving as a model for a remote flash tripped via a photo-electric cell invented in Madison by Sheldon Wengel and Howard La C... |
Date: | 1927 |
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Description: | Front view of "Speck's cotton picker," taken for International Harvester's Engineering Department. |
Date: | 07 19 1927 |
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Description: | Left side view of Speck's cotton picker, taken for International Harvester's Engineering Department. |
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: | Earl C. Smith, president of the Illinois Agricultural Association, speaks into a microphone at an event to honor Mr. Clarence Dauberman for creating the fi... |
Date: | 1896 |
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Description: | 40 H.P. experimental tractor. Original caption reads: "40 H.P., Built in 1896." |
Date: | 02 22 1950 |
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Description: | An example of a pilot plant to remove phosphorus from sewage effluent by engineering professors William L. Lea and Gerard A. Rohlich. |
Date: | 05 13 1938 |
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Description: | International PD-80 Marine power unit developed by the company's Nashville branch. |
Date: | |
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Description: | Detail of clock design by John Muir, showing a book resting on a holder in the shape of a gear. |
Date: | |
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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: | 1946 |
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Description: | Colonel Robert S. Allen, a well-known journalist before World War II, lost his arm while on active duty in Europe. He is seated here with Dr Anton Dvorak, ... |
Date: | 1933 |
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Description: | Three-quarter right side rear view of a tractor prototype. On the right front front side of the tractor is a sign that reads: "M'f'd by The Ohio Mfg. Co., ... |
Date: | 04 2014 |
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Description: | View of the display case of John Muir's mechanical clock desk, which is on the ground floor of the Wisconsin Historical Society. |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Outdoor view of a car, built by two University of Wisconsin students, which can be driven remotely. |
Date: | 12 04 1957 |
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Description: | Professor Verner Suomi of the University of Wisconsin meteorology department and leader of a university team building one of the U.S. satellites, is shown ... |
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