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| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for Alfred Lawson, declaring that he is "Designer and Navigator of the First Airliner." Background image shows the Lawson Air Liner flying. I... |
| 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: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Illustration on cover of a book written about the history of the typewriter covering 1873-1923. |
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| Description: | Illustration used for a book written about the history of the typewriter. Image includes Christopher Latham Sholes, inventor of the first practical typewri... |
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| Description: | Oscar Zerk is sitting at his desk in his office holding a Zerk grease gun in his hand. There is a taxidermied owl on the cabinet on the right, and a large ... |
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| Description: | Oscar Zerk is sitting at a desk holding a paper in his hand. The room is decorated with two taxidermied birds, and a large picture window is behind the des... |
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| Description: | Inventor Oscar Zerk is leaning over his drafting table as he works on a design. |
| Date: | 08 1954 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of inventor Oscar Zerk with his hand on his chin. |
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| Description: | An exhibit of petrified wood sections and other objects on tables and display cases in the Zerk Museum. Paintings, photographs, jewelry and other objects a... |
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| Description: | Stone marker at Walnut Grove. The inscription reads: "Cycrus H. McCormick — Inventor of the reaper. Was born on this farm, Feb. 15, 1809. Here he completed... |
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