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Dr. Babcock with Butterfat Tester

Date: 1926
Description: Dr. Stephen Babcock with an electric centrifuge butterfat tester.
Historical Object

Limnology Apparatus

Date: 1890
Description: Apparatus for limnological research conducted at Trout Lake, Wisconsin and elsewhere.
Photograph

Limnological Research on Ice

Date: 
Description: Dr. Edward Birge, March, and Professor Chancey Juday with the first mud thermometer on the ice.
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Gilson Metal Locator

Date: 03 15 1945
Description: Hulda Gieschen and Dr. Warren E. Gilson, who specializes in electro-physiology and medical electronics at the University of Wisconsin, are looking at a Gil...
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Babcock Ceremony

Date: 1928
Description: Crowd seated on the lawn of Agriculture Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison for a ceremony honoring S.M. Babcock, inventor of the butter test.
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U.W. Madison Earth Satellite Project

Date: 12 04 1957
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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U.W. Madison Earth Satellite Project

Date: 12 06 1957
Description: The small black sensor on the end of the antenna of a model Vanguard satellite, will detect differences in radiation as the satellite passes over the earth...

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