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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: | 1910 |
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Description: | The Curtiss Pusher owned by Arthur Pratt Warner of Beloit, the first man to fly in Wisconsin and the first person to purchase an airplane. Slightly below ... |
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: | 1906 |
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Description: | The monoplane glider built and flown by Carl S. Bates of Clear Lake, Iowa. During the previous year Bates had built a bi-plane glider. |
Date: | 04 02 1946 |
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Description: | Mr. Mullarkey (probably Leo R. Mullarkey) standing beside Glider Home Laundry and Dry Cleaning Agitator, Washer and steam garment press with Vel Colgate so... |
Date: | 09 29 1945 |
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Description: | Toddler sitting at child's training desk, with lid closed. |
Date: | 09 29 1945 |
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Description: | Little boy at child's training desk with bench seat. |
Date: | 09 29 1945 |
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Description: | Young girl seated at child's training desk with top open showing blackboard. |
Date: | 11 04 1943 |
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Description: | Closed ladder against trade shelves at Madison-Kipp Corp., 201-231 Waubesa Street. |
Date: | 10 19 1931 |
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Description: | Edison kinetascope, patented in 1897, one of the first motion picture projectors invented by Thomas A. Edison. It is hand cranked and chain driven. |
Date: | 07 02 1946 |
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Description: | Experimental model steam car, taken from left side, for the Keen Manufacturing Company, located at 2661 East Washington Avenue. |
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: | 1979 |
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Description: | Color poster printed to honor the 60th anniversary of Alfred Lawson's flight from Milwaukee to Washington, D.C. The poster includes a portrait of Lawson a... |
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: | 1850 |
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Description: | Quarter-length portrait of inventor Obed Hussey (1782?-1860) as it appeared in W.T. Hutchinson's biography of Cyrus Hall McCormick. He is wearing an eye pa... |
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... |
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