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Slide rule

1949

Board advertising colloquium with Stephen Hawking at Fermilab

1985

Circular slide rule

Circular slide rule and time zone scale

1947

Laboratory robot with electric interface unit and computer

1991

Box for NASA Space Shuttle Model

1988

Baby Calculator', c.1960.

circa 1960

Circular slide rule

1955

Circular slide rule

1949

Rectangular plastic slide-chart made by Perrygraf for complimentary distribution by IBM Federal Systems Division

Spengler's Pencil Sharpener, 1907

1907

Treadle sewing machine sold by Harris Ltd

1890-1950

Slide rule for electrical calculations with one slider

1957

Slide rule for resonant frequency

1957

Glennite slide rule for radio communications with four sliders

1957

Box for Apollo Spacecraft Command Module Model

1984
Isolation chip, known as iChip, for isolation of microorganisms that cannot be cultivated using conventional microbiological techniques using an array of 384 miniature diffusion chambers, based on an idea by Slava Epstein and colleagues at Northeastern University, made by HI-TECH Manufacturing, United States, January 2010

Isolation chip, or ichip

2010
Retail Selling Inventory material, comprises: 1 test booklet, developed by H.J. Baker and P.H. Voelker, published by Public School Publishing, Co., Bloomington, IL, n.d.

Retail Selling Inventory material

Hallicrafters model 505 television receiver,1948. Missing its brown rubber screen bezel & safety 'glass' (Perspex) SEE HAZARD RECORD.

Hallicrafters 505 television receiver

1948
Associated Press photograph showing American golf champion Tony Lema drinking champagne with his wife, Betty. Caption on back states that the Lemas, along with two other persons, died in a private plane crash near Lansing, Illinois. They were returning to Joliet, Illinois from Akron, Ohio, where Lema had just played in a gold tournament.

Golfer Tony Lema and wife

25 July 1966
Sectional model, one eighth full size, of Fermi's original nuclear reactor (atomic pile) CP-1, (1942)

A model of a nuclear reactor designed by Enrico Fermi, 1942

1942
1:32 scale model of Apollo spacecraft made by Monogram, Illinois, c.1980

Model of Apollo spacecraft

1980
Type 33 Teletype; four parts. Manufactured by Teletype Corporation, illinois, USA.

Teletype

Gas Flow counter made by Nuclear Chicago, Illinois, 1965

Gas Flow counter made by Nuclear Chicago

1965
Slide rule for tape-wound core calculations with single slider, cardboard, in envelope with instructions, made 1957 by Perrygraf, Illinois for Magnetics, Pennsylvania

Slide rule for tape-wound core calculations with single slider

1957
Slide rule for parabolic antenna systems calculations with one slider, cardboard, in envelope with instructions, made 1957 by Andrew Corporation, Illinois

Slide rule for parabolic antenna systems calculations with one slider

1957
Eyelet selector chart in slide-rule format, made 1959 by Perrygraf, Illinois for United Shoe Machinery Corporation, Massachusetts

Eyelet selector chart in slide-rule format

1959
1:72 scale model of NASA space shuttle Columbia made by Monogram, Illinois, 1988

Model of NASA space shuttle, Columbia

1988
Pocket watch, by Rockford Watch Co., Illinois, USA, America, 1876-1915

Pocket watch, gold

1876-1915
Lowrey electronic organs were originally made by and named after their developer, Frederick Lowrey, a Chicago-based industrialist and entrepreneur, with the organs constructed in Lowrey’s home state of Illinois. During the 1960s and 1970s, Lowrey was the largest manufacturer of electronic organs in the world and this example (also known as a Lowrey Symphonic Holiday organ) is one of their later examples. Organ made in mid-1970s with electronic and plastic components and wooden body. With wooden stool.

Lowrey four-channel Symphonic Electronic Organ Model TGS, by Lowrey, Illinois, USA, c. 1974-76

circa 1974-76