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| Newspaperman, Politician and Inventor |
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| Biography of newspaperman, a politician and typewriter inventor Christopher Latham Sholes. |
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| Biography of Ole Evinrude, a Norwegian-American inventor who created the first outboard motor. |
| The Remarkable History of the Telephone |
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| Learn how Wisconsin resident Richard Valentine's invention would change the world |
| 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: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Unidentified man (inventor?) seated at and showing a foot-powered (?) milking machine. He is outdoors near a stone building. |
| 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: | Actors portraying I.M. Singer and his friend George Zieber with the first sewing machine. |
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| Description: | Actors portray I.M. Singer and George Zieber examining an early sewing machine. |
| Date: | 07 16 1870 |
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| Description: | The front page of the last will and testament of Isaac Merritt Singer, founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company. |
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| Description: | Color portrait of James Oliver pasted onto a card. "When I sell a plow, I make a friend." |
| Date: | 12 17 1943 |
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| 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, ... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Catalog featuring calendar pages. February features Lewis Miller, the father of the mowing machine, with text and a portrait. March has an illustration of ... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Front cover of catalog featuring a framed portrait of Cyrus H. McCormick surrounded by foliage. A putto is pulling away a drape from the portrait with one ... |
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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... |
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| Description: | Coin for Reaper Centennial with portrait of C.H. McCormick, inventor of the reaper. |
| Date: | 05 22 1935 |
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| Description: | Engraving of "Men of Progress, American Inventors." |
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| Description: | "Testing of First Reaper at Steele's Tavern." Second version illustrating occasion. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Copy of chromolithograph of the testing of the first reaping machine at Steele's Tavern, W. Virginia." The scene includes racist depictions of enslaved Afr... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Anvil block sitting outdoors. The block was used by Cyrus McCormick for building the first reaper. |
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