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Filter: Year of 1900-1999
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Cigar box label with portraits of inventors Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, Richard March Hoe. Around the edges are illustratio... |
| 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. |
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| Biography of Ole Evinrude, a Norwegian-American inventor who created the first outboard motor. |
| 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: | 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... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Back cover of an advertisement sheet, with a front page that reads: "International Harvester Celebrates The Invention of the Reaper". The color illu... |
| Date: | 08 1954 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of inventor Oscar Zerk with his hand on his chin. |
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