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ATL: a history of leadership in ultrasound technology, 1988
Advanced Technology Laboratories (ATL) was founded in 1969 by a group of engineers working on marine electronic systems. In 1974, ATL and the University of Washington signed the first of two technology transfer agreements (the second occurred in 1976) and began working in diagnostic medical ultrasound, manufacturing products for hospitals and physicians. As a result of its success, ATL was…
ID Number:2008.33.14.1
Date:1988
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ATL Wavelengths Special Edition, August 1998
Advanced Technology Laboratories (ATL) was founded in 1969 by a group of engineers working on marine electronic systems. In 1974, ATL and the University of Washington signed the first of two technology transfer agreements (the second occurred in 1976) and began working in diagnostic medical ultrasound, manufacturing products for hospitals and physicians. As a result of its success, ATL was…
ID Number:2008.33.23.1
Date:1998
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ATL Mark III Imaging System B, 1980
Advanced Technology Laboratories (ATL) was founded in 1969 by a group of engineers working on marine electronic systems. In 1974, ATL and the University of Washington signed the first of two technology transfer agreements (the second occurred in 1976) and began working in diagnostic medical ultrasound, manufacturing products for hospitals and physicians. As a result of its success, ATL was…
ID Number:2008.33.43.1
Date:1980
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ATL Mark III Real-Time Imaging, circa 1978
Advanced Technology Laboratories (ATL) was founded in 1969 by a group of engineers working on marine electronic systems. In 1974, ATL and the University of Washington signed the first of two technology transfer agreements (the second occurred in 1976) and began working in diagnostic medical ultrasound, manufacturing products for hospitals and physicians. As a result of its success, ATL was…
ID Number:2008.33.43.2
Date:Circa 1978
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ATL Ultramark 4 Ultrasound System, circa 1986
Advanced Technology Laboratories (ATL) was founded in 1969 by a group of engineers working on marine electronic systems. In 1974, ATL and the University of Washington signed the first of two technology transfer agreements (the second occurred in 1976) and began working in diagnostic medical ultrasound, manufacturing products for hospitals and physicians. As a result of its success, ATL was…
ID Number:2008.33.48.1
Date:Circa 1986
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Westmark International brochure, circa 1990
Advanced Technology Laboratories (ATL) was founded in 1969 by a group of engineers working on marine electronic systems. In 1974, ATL and the University of Washington signed the first of two technology transfer agreements (the second occurred in 1976) and began working in diagnostic medical ultrasound, manufacturing products for hospitals and physicians. As a result of its success, ATL was…
ID Number:2008.33.57.1
Date:Circa 1990
Cartographic material
Proposed Plan and Improvement of Salmon Bay Harbor, Seattle, November 1892
Since the city's earliest days, Seattleites proposed canals to cheaply and easily move logs, coal, and other resources between Elliott Bay and Lake Washington. Possible routes extended from the Black River at the south end of Lake Washington to canals through Lake Union and Shilshole Bay in the north. A 1891 report commissioned by the federal government explored five possible…
ID Number:2008.54.48
Date:1892
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Seattle Cedar Lumber Manufacturing Company fire, May 20, 1958
On May 20, 1958, at about 9:25 p.m., a massive fire began that destroyed the Seattle Cedar Lumber Manufacturing Co. at Salmon Bay in Ballard. Fireboats poured water on the flames, the largest fire in Seattle since the fire of 1889. Heat from the fire was felt more than two blocks away, and the fire's glow was visible from Tacoma…
ID Number:2009.23.9
Date:1958
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Sweden Freezer Manufacturing Company ice cream and shake machines in diner, circa 1970
Seattle businessman and inventor Harvey F. “Sandy” Swenson founded Sweden Freezer Manufacturing Company in 1932, and is credited with inventing the milk shake machine. Sweden Freezer is also known for another of its inventions: a new dialysis delivery system developed by Swenson in collaboration with Dr. Belding Scribner of the University of Washington in 1962. The new system used sanitary…
ID Number:2009.33.191
Date:Circa 1970
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Portrait of David Rodgers, circa 1918
David Rodgers was a master shipfitter who is credited with revolutionizing the shipbuilding industry. Born 1865 in Carrickfergus, Ireland, he worked for noted shipyards in the Great Lakes area, San Francisco, and Vancouver, B.C. In Seattle Rodgers worked at the Puget Sound Naval Station and then Moran Brothers Company (later Seattle Construction & Drydock Company), overseeing the building of the…
ID Number:2009.56.56
Date:Circa 1918