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| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Muir's illustration of a means to record time by use of a star. He titled the drawing "The star hand rising and setting with the sun all the year". |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | A John Muir sketch of a fancake draught of sawframe with crankshaft in position. Scale two inches per foot. Depth of frame 5 1/2 inches. Speed of cranks... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Engraved portrait of J. Wesley Carhart of Racine, Methodist minister, physician, and inventor of a steam-powered automobile in 1871. Although impractical, ... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A group of five men are standing and sitting around a McCormick grain binder. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | 40 H.P. experimental tractor. Original caption reads: "40 H.P., Built in 1896." |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Official copy of Cyrus McCormick's 1834 reaper patent. This copy was made by the Patent Office at the request of the McCormick family. |
| Date: | 02 1862 |
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| Description: | Tintype of a model gun intended to accompany a patent application. The five-barreled gun, invented by William Bradford, is mounted on wheels. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Official copy of Cyrus McCormick's 1834 reaper patent. This copy was made by the Patent Office at the request of the McCormick family. |
| Date: | 02 13 1862 |
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| Description: | Letter describing gun invention and Bradford's intentions for improvements. |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | A Withington wire binder sits on display inside a building at the Centennial Exposition, the first official World's Fair in the United States. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter left side view of a tractor built by S.S. Morton. The photograph is labeled, "The Predecessor of the International Line." |
| 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... |
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