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| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Washburn Observatory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, showing telephone wires. |
| Date: | 04 1950 |
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| Description: | A girl on a swing is the subject of photographers demonstrating a technique using high speed flash. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Professor Hull conducting an experiment at the Psychological laboratory of the University of Wisconsin. |
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| Description: | Aldo Leopold, UW Professor of Wildlife Management, posing with binoculars around his neck. He is about to embark on an inspection and bird-watching tour of... |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Lillian Sholes, demonstrating a prototype typewriter invented by her father, Christopher Latham Sholes. |
| Date: | 11 04 1940 |
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| Description: | Druggist J.F. Robinson staffs the pharmacy's "Information Desk," ready to take a prescription from a doctor over the telephone. The pharmacy championed t... |
| Date: | 09 20 1956 |
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| Description: | Katharine Mather of the Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station checks a computer analysis of the composition of cement. |
| Date: | 01 10 1966 |
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| Description: | Gail Lukas' hair stands on end when she places her hand on a Van de Graalf generator in a demonstration by the Atomic Energy Commission for junior high sch... |
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| Description: | Students and teacher in classroom demonstrating an experiment with atomic energy. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a demonstration of a nuclear reactor driven energy plant. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Inventor, B.L. Boboroff, displays his vote recording device to members of the U.S. House of Representatives. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Telescope at Washburn Observatory with man at controls. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of an engineer attaching a Transtar nameplate to an International semi-truck during testing. |
| Date: | 04 16 1972 |
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| Description: | The Apollo 16 flight crew and backup crew at the breakfast served four hours before launch. With them, seated on the right side of the table and pointing, ... |
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| Description: | Astronaut Charles M Duke, Jr., collecting lunar samples using a rake and tongs. This photograph was taken on the moon by John W. Young, the crew commander.... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The Curtiss Pusher owned by Arthur Pratt Warner of Beloit, the first man to fly in Wisconsin and the first person to purchase an airplane. Slightly below ... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Dr. E.A. Birge's equipment at his Trout Lake Station laboratory. |
| Date: | 06 02 1930 |
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| Description: | Engineering photograph of an experimental No. 20 TracTracTor (crawler tractor). Left side view. |
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