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| Description: | Rendering of a Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company product. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago inventor and manufacturer of electical apparatus, famo... |
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| Description: | Rendering of a Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company product. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago inventor and manufacturer of electical apparatus, famo... |
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| Description: | A woman demonstrates the use of a homemade bee catcher on a tree in her yard. |
| 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: | 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: | 1909 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man demonstrates his unsuccessful bird-like mechanism, which was part of an experiment in aviation. |
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| Description: | Jack Penewell of Madison, originator of the twelve string Hawaiian guitar (or so his business card says), with another musician tentatively identified as T... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Automobile made by J. Wesley Carhart, Methodist minister of Racine, later of Oshkosh, Maryland and Texas. The vehicle was dismantled and the engine used to... |
| Date: | 12 24 1894 |
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| Description: | Diploma of honorable mention presented to Stephen M. Babcock by the Board of Lady Managers of the Columbian Exposition. The document honors Babcock's inven... |
| Date: | 10 18 1879 |
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| Description: | Depiction of Edison's Electric Generator in the weekly journal of practical information, art, science, chemistry and manufactures. It is an electrical gene... |
| 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: | 09 06 1948 |
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| Description: | A postcard advertising the invention of the telecamera by William Pitt Fessenden in 1941 in Phlox, Wisconsin. |
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