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- Reuhl "Deluxe" Gas-Powered Racing Tether Car, circa 1947 - Tether cars, gas-powered model race cars, were popular in the 1930s and 1940s. They were raced individually while tethered to a central pivot, or against each other on a scaled-down board track. This Reuhl Deluxe was considered a prototype class car in competition. It resembled a real open-cockpit race car, and its engine sat under the hood.
- circa 1947
- Collections - Artifact
Reuhl "Deluxe" Gas-Powered Racing Tether Car, circa 1947
Tether cars, gas-powered model race cars, were popular in the 1930s and 1940s. They were raced individually while tethered to a central pivot, or against each other on a scaled-down board track. This Reuhl Deluxe was considered a prototype class car in competition. It resembled a real open-cockpit race car, and its engine sat under the hood.
- Northern Electrical Manufacturing Company Motor, 1907-1915 - Electric motors began to revolutionize manufacturing in the late 1800s. Motors, driving groups of machines, began to free production from the tangle of belts, pulleys and line shafts previously used to power equipment. Factory space became open and flexible, safety improved, and production increased. Northern Electrical Manufacturing Company, founded in 1895 in Madison, Wisconsin, specialized in factory motors, generators, and other machinery.
- 1907-1915
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Northern Electrical Manufacturing Company Motor, 1907-1915
Electric motors began to revolutionize manufacturing in the late 1800s. Motors, driving groups of machines, began to free production from the tangle of belts, pulleys and line shafts previously used to power equipment. Factory space became open and flexible, safety improved, and production increased. Northern Electrical Manufacturing Company, founded in 1895 in Madison, Wisconsin, specialized in factory motors, generators, and other machinery.
- MiniCom II Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TDD), 1983 -
- 1983
- Collections - Artifact
MiniCom II Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TDD), 1983
- Desk Stand Telephone, circa 1895 -
- circa 1895
- Collections - Artifact
Desk Stand Telephone, circa 1895
- Building Used for Those Employed to Care for Veterans at Wisconsin Memorial Hospital, November 1923 -
- 1922-1923
- Collections - Artifact
Building Used for Those Employed to Care for Veterans at Wisconsin Memorial Hospital, November 1923
- Burgess Dry-Cell Battery, No. 4156, 1924-1926 -
- 1924-1926
- Collections - Artifact
Burgess Dry-Cell Battery, No. 4156, 1924-1926
- "Segmented Form" by Harvey K. Littleton, 1964 -
- 1964
- Collections - Artifact
"Segmented Form" by Harvey K. Littleton, 1964
- Chalk Holder Used by Richie Jean Jackson, Selma, Alabama -
- 1960-1969
- Collections - Artifact
Chalk Holder Used by Richie Jean Jackson, Selma, Alabama
- Hollister's Golden Nugget Tablets, 1875-1925 - Nineteenth-century entrepreneurs promised cures with patent medicines. Some of these concoctions, however, contained harmful ingredients or ingredients used in unsafe quantities -- the industry was unregulated and manufacturers were secretive about their recipes. Beginning with the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, national legislation increasingly prohibited misleading health claims and required manufacturers to list their product's contents.
- 1875-1925
- Collections - Artifact
Hollister's Golden Nugget Tablets, 1875-1925
Nineteenth-century entrepreneurs promised cures with patent medicines. Some of these concoctions, however, contained harmful ingredients or ingredients used in unsafe quantities -- the industry was unregulated and manufacturers were secretive about their recipes. Beginning with the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, national legislation increasingly prohibited misleading health claims and required manufacturers to list their product's contents.
- Prouty Power Press, circa 1880 - Enoch Prouty was a Baptist minister who wanted to print a temperance newspaper. He could not afford a press--so he invented one. The long arms and rods on this "grasshopper" press move when operated. In 1892 and 1893, it received merit awards at Chicago's Columbian Exposition. This particular press printed an agricultural journal in Ohio in the 1920s.
- circa 1880
- Collections - Artifact
Prouty Power Press, circa 1880
Enoch Prouty was a Baptist minister who wanted to print a temperance newspaper. He could not afford a press--so he invented one. The long arms and rods on this "grasshopper" press move when operated. In 1892 and 1893, it received merit awards at Chicago's Columbian Exposition. This particular press printed an agricultural journal in Ohio in the 1920s.