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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Magnus Swenson. He was a Norwegian immigrant who made his name in business and as an inventor. He served on the Wisconsin Capitol Buil... |
| Date: | 02 15 1957 |
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| Description: | John Fischer, age 11, demonstrates his invention, a "walking and talking" robot. The robot's eyes light up, and it rolls back and forth on a platform. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Arthur Pratt Warner, Wisconsin's first aviator, in front of the office of the Warner Instrument Company in Beloit. Warner, who held the patent for an autom... |
| Date: | 01 29 1946 |
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| Description: | Schoelkopf Manufacturing Company, 320 North 3rd Street, between East Johnson Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. Louis Schoelkopf invented and manufactured the... |
| Date: | 06 15 1927 |
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| Description: | Schoelkopf Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of Air-Lec power door operators. The doors are in an open position, view from indoors looking out towards t... |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length, formal studio portrait of George S. Parker of Janesville, Wisconsin. |
| 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: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View from pier of John "Commodore" Heggestad of Department 40 of Gisholt proudly standing on the pontoon of the "Monona-Mobile" (pontoon boat) on which his... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Standing, three-quarter length portrait of Edward J. Carlier (1893-1954) posing with an elbow resting on tires and a pencil and papers in his hands. Establ... |
| Date: | 02 18 1955 |
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| Description: | A man posing indoors with a drawn bow. He has a quiver with additional arrows affixed to his arm. Caption reads: "ACCLAIMED BY ARCHERS is this arm q... |
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