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Refrigerated Rail Car Inquiry Unit
A photo of 3 men loading strawberries into a refrigerated car and a photo of 2 men "icing" a refrigerated car, both courtesy of the Library of Congress. Download PDF Visit Source 1 Visit Sour…
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Some technology is so woven into our lives that we barely notice it. We go about our daily routines without giving it a thought, yet, were it not for these advancements, our routines would be very dif…
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Refrigerated Rail Car Inquiry Unit
Refrigerated Rail Car Inquiry Unit Download PDF Testing Insulation for Refrigerated Rail Cars Prompt for the students: Joel Tiffany has just hired your team to engineer his first Tiffany Refri…
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Refrigerated Rail Car Inquiry Unit
A biography of Gustavus Franklin Swift along with information about his rail car designs. Visit Source 1 Visit Source 2 Visit Source 3 Download PDF…
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Refrigerated Rail Car Inquiry Unit
US Patent detailing William Davis' design for a Refrigerated Rail Car. Visit Source Download PDF…
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US Patent detailing J.B. Sutherland's design for a Refrigerated Rail Car. Visit Source Download PDF…
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Refrigerated Rail Car Inquiry Unit
A paper written by L.C. Corrbett, Horticulturist, Bureau of Plant Industry, U.S.Department of Agriculture, published as Farmers’ Bulletin 475, issue date 13 Dec. 1911. Visit Source Download PD…
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Refrigerated Rail Car Inquiry Unit
Correspondence from Thomas Moore to President Thomas Jefferson inviting him to examine the condition of butter that was stored in Moore's "refrigiratory". Visit Source Download PDF…
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Radio Inquiry Unit
Join historian Alex Magoun on a journey through the history of radio technology from James Clark Maxwell’s theory of electromagnetism to Guglielmo Marconi's use of that theory in long-distance radio…
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Radio Inquiry Unit
Continue on the historical journey of the radio industry with historian Alex Magoun as he goes back in time and shares how engineers and scientists improved wireless telegraphy from Morse code to the …
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