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John Muir's Clock Design

Date: 1863
Description: Sketch of John Muir's clock design.The built clock was a combination of scythes, wheels and arrows. A rough bough of burr oak was set upon a base incrusted...
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Dash Coil with Switch

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Description: Rendering of a Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company product. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago inventor and manufacturer of electical apparatus, famo...
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Thordarson's Multiple Lighting Transformer

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Description: Rendering of a Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company product. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago inventor and manufacturer of electical apparatus, famo...
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Lamp or Exploring Coil

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Description: Rendering of a Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company product. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago inventor and manufacturer of electical apparatus, famo...
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Rhumkorff Coils

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Description: Rendering of a Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company product. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago inventor and manufacturer of electical apparatus, famo...
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High Voltage Test Transformers

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Description: Rendering of a Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company product. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago inventor and manufacturer of electical apparatus, famo...
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Sketch of Machine Parts

Date: 1863
Description: A sketch of mechanical parts for an invention.
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John Muir's Thermometer

Date: 1863
Description: A sketch of a thermometer. Quoting from Muir's autobiography "My Boyhood and Youth" he described the thermometer as "made of an iron rod, about three feet ...
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Barometer Gauge

Date: 1863
Description: A gauge part of a barometer.
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John Muir Clock

Date: 1863
Description: Watercolor illustration of a clock.
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Barometer

Date: 1863
Description: Watercolor illustration of a barometer designed by John Muir in his boyhood.
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John Muir Clock

Date: 1863
Description: Muir's illustration of a means to record time by use of a star. He titled the drawing "The star hand rising and setting with the sun all the year".
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Fancake Draught

Date: 1863
Description: A John Muir sketch of a fancake draught of sawframe with crankshaft in position. Scale two inches per foot. Depth of frame 5 1/2 inches. Speed of cranks...
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Illustration of Film, Light and Shutter Speed

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Description: Illustration showing the relationship of film speed, shutter speed, and aperture in photography.
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Color Spectrum of Panchromatic and Ortho Film

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Description: Sid's illustration showing the range of infrared and ultraviolet radiation and the color sensitivity of Panchromatic and Ortho films compared to human visi...
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Illustration on Photography and Light Control

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Description: Sid's illustration showing the relationship between film, a camera lens and the light controls for aperture and shutter speed in photography.

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