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| 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... |
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| Description: | Portrait of inventor John F. Appleby. The Wisconsin inventor is credited with inventing a knotting mechanism that made twine grain binders possible in the ... |
| 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: | 01 10 1945 |
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| Description: | Carved wooden combination alarm clock & study desk made by John Muir about 1862, while a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, on display in the ... |
| Date: | 07 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Pfc. Glen Lindsey displays the fly traps he invented to trap thousands of flies in the Truax Field area. |
| Date: | 11 29 1951 |
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| Description: | The first commercial pigeon hole parking unit in the world was built for the Harry S. Manchester department store, behind Manchesters at the corner of Wisc... |
| Date: | 04 10 1945 |
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| Description: | A man, possibly inventor Leo Kay, holding a slipover bowling shoe, which attaches to a regular street shoe. |
| 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. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length oval studio portrait of Charles B. Withington, the inventor of the first practical wire binder. Withington was born in Akron, Ohio in 1830, ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Portrait of John F. Steward, head of International Harvester's Patent Department. Steward had previously worked for the Deering Harvester Company. |
| Date: | 06 26 1959 |
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| Description: | Richard Brachman, an engineer, demonstrates his solution for the problem of mowing the grass on a steep slope near his home. He removed the handles of his ... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Unidentified man (inventor?) seated at and showing a foot-powered (?) milking machine. He is outdoors near a stone building. |
| Date: | 12 09 1959 |
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| Description: | Five members of a Junior Achievement group made up of representatives of the four Madison High Schools accept a plaque for best research in developing new ... |
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| Description: | Actors portraying I.M. Singer and his friend George Zieber with the first sewing machine. |
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| Description: | Actors portray I.M. Singer and George Zieber examining an early sewing machine. |
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| Description: | View from street of two men standing just inside the open doorway of the storefront. Trunks are displayed on pallets set up on the wooden sidewalk. Dexter ... |
| Date: | 02 03 1964 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin high school student Jeffrey Mattox is shown playing a game of tic-tac-toe against the machine he constructed. A screen shows the squares, and a m... |
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| Description: | Coin for Reaper Centennial with portrait of C.H. McCormick, inventor of the reaper. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Anvil block sitting outdoors. The block was used by Cyrus McCormick for building the first reaper. |
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