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| 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: | 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: | 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: | 08 05 1950 |
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| Description: | Mr. R.G. Reynoldson of 150 Lakewood Boulevard is pictured behind the wheel of his car demonstrating his invention, the "aeromatic speed control." Mr. Reyno... |
| Date: | 08 05 1950 |
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| Description: | The speed control device invented by R.G. Reynoldson of 150 Lakewood Boulevard is shown attached to a second speedometer under the hood of his car. The "ae... |
| Date: | 12 16 1951 |
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| Description: | At left, Lynn Hazelbaker is shown demonstrating the winning entry of the Madison Youth Council's rat bait box building contest built by Edward Ripp, age 14... |
| Date: | 02 23 1955 |
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| Description: | Five scientists wearing lab coats gather around an apparatus in a laboratory. |
| Date: | 02 27 1956 |
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| Description: | Olaf Hanson, operator of a meat counter, displays his invention: a plastic mold to assemble city chicken on wood skewers. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View from rocky shoreline of the launching of the "Monona-Mobile" (pontoon car) onto Lake Monona. The boat launch is on the left. "11248" is painted on the... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the "Monona-Mobile" (pontoon car) on Lake Monona, close to a pier on the left where a man is standing and watching. Buildings on ... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A group of men are standing on the pontoons of the "Monona-Mobile" (pontoon car) which is near a pier on the left. The Wisconsin State Capitol is in the fa... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Unidentified man wearing a suit and a bow tie is standing on a pontoon of the "Monona-Mobile" (pontoon car) and holding the tow rope. Across the lake is th... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View from pier of John "Commodore" Heggestad of Department 40 of Gisholt proudly standing on the pontoon of the "Monona-Mobile" (pontoon boat) on which his... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from shoreline of the "Monona-Mobile" (pontoon boat) which is powered by an automobile. There is a man standing on a pier on the left watchin... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View across water of three men relaxing on the pontoons of the "Monona-Mobile." Two men are sitting in the front seat of the car. John "Commodore" Heggesta... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View from pier towards two men sitting in the front seat of the "Monona-Mobile," a pontoon boat powered by an automobile. The knee of a man is in the right... |
| 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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