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| Date: | 07 02 1946 |
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| Description: | Experimental model steam car, taken from right side, for the Keen Manufacturing Company, 2661 East Washington Avenue. |
| 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: | 05 14 1927 |
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| Description: | Farmer and mechanic F.L. Zybach, 32, standing beside his invention -- a Fordson tractor with a front-mounted plow equipped for "driverless operation." Orig... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Re-enactors demonstrating a replica of the first reaper built by Cyrus Hall McCormick in 1831. The man raking at the back of the reaper appears to be playi... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Re-enactors demonstrating a replica of the first reaper built by Cyrus Hall McCormick in 1831. The man raking at the back of the reaper appears to be playi... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Film crew setting up a scene in which actors playing the parts of Cyrus McCormick and his slave Jo Anderson operate a replica of McCormick's reaper of 183... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Still from the feature length motion picuture "Romance of the Reaper" showing a recreation of the demonstration of Cyrus McCormick's reaper of 1831 at Waln... |
| Date: | 03 24 1947 |
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| Description: | Prototype of "Sure Grip" fishing pole holder for carrying fishing poles on the top or sides of a car. Shows device with an advertising card attached that i... |
| Date: | 03 25 1947 |
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| Description: | Metal baby high chair capable of disassembling and folding for easy transport. Close-up view of chair disassembled, with parts packed in a suitcase. View d... |
| Date: | 03 25 1947 |
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| Description: | Metal baby high chair, capable of being disassembled and folded for easy transport. Taken for Halbert M. Wood, WooDick Corporation. |
| Date: | 10 08 1953 |
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| Description: | Display of Research Products Corporation Filter Fry frying pan covers in a grocery cart. |
| 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: | 04 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Workman riveting two filter frames together horizontally. Taken for Research Products, 1011-1015 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 04 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Workman riveting filter frames together in a L shape, taken for Research Products, 1011-1015 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Postcard including a photograph of a device used to transport a queen bee. On it is also an advertisement for ordering queen bees. |
| 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: | 03 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Hulda Gieschen and Dr. Warren E. Gilson, who specializes in electro-physiology and medical electronics at the University of Wisconsin, are looking at a Gil... |
| 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: | 01 27 1947 |
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| Description: | Dr. John H. Gieselman, osteopathic physician, shown at a microscope. Dr. Gieselman often designed his own diagnostic equipment. He invented a new mechani... |
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