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Bureau of Standards, steel testing machine. 2,300,000. capacity
8 x 10 in. or smaller
- Date
- 1910–1925
- Collection
- National Photo Company
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 6,455 × 5,179 pixels
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