Date: | 1850 |
---|---|
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: | |
---|---|
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: | |
---|---|
Description: | A portrait of Christopher Latham Sholes, the inventor of the typewriter. Sholes was an editor in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and later continued this work in Milwa... |
Date: | 1933 |
---|---|
Description: | Map created by International Harvester entitled: "The United States as it appeared in 1831 when Cyrus Hall McCormick invented the Reaper." The map pinpoint... |
Date: | 1887 |
---|---|
Description: | Illustration of men harvesting grain with Cyrus McCormick's reaper of 1831. The illustration appeared in an advertising folder produced by the McCormick Ha... |
Date: | 1909 |
---|---|
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: | 1885 |
---|---|
Description: | Engraved illustration of "Walnut Grove," the "homestead of the McCormick family" in Rockbridge County, Virginia. Cyrus Hall McCormick developed the first s... |
Date: | 11 29 1951 |
---|---|
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 |
---|---|
Description: | A man, possibly inventor Leo Kay, holding a slipover bowling shoe, which attaches to a regular street shoe. |
Date: | 1946 |
---|---|
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 |
---|---|
Description: | An unidentified man demonstrates his unsuccessful bird-like mechanism, which was part of an experiment in aviation. |
Date: | 1909 |
---|---|
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 |
---|---|
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 |
---|---|
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 |
---|---|
Description: | Unidentified man (inventor?) seated at and showing a foot-powered (?) milking machine. He is outdoors near a stone building. |
Date: | |
---|---|
Description: | Actors portraying I.M. Singer and his friend George Zieber with the first sewing machine. |
Date: | |
---|---|
Description: | Actors portray I.M. Singer and George Zieber examining an early sewing machine. |
Date: | 07 16 1870 |
---|---|
Description: | The front page of the last will and testament of Isaac Merritt Singer, founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company. |
Date: | |
---|---|
Description: | Color portrait of James Oliver pasted onto a card. "When I sell a plow, I make a friend." |
Date: | 12 17 1943 |
---|---|
Description: | Front cover and menu from a dinner honoring Orville Wright, on the fortieth anniversary of the first flights of Wilbur and Orville Wright from Kitty Hawk, ... |
If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help.
Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at: