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There are 18 markers total, 17 of them located on central campus. They are:
[edit] A Faster Fax
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| In 1971, Iowa State electrical engineering doctoral student David Nicholas invented a process to more efficiently convert text into digital information. Facsimile machine manufacturers adopted the technology in the 1980s, making fax machines an office staple for business correspondence around the world
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[edit] Birthplace of Cooperative Extension
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| In 1903, the nation's first cooperative agricultural extension program was launched when Iowa State professor Perry Holden, a group of farmers in Sioux county, and the county's board of supervisors created a plan for educating farmers about improving seed corn. This massive effort included demonstration farms, farmer institutes and special "seed corn exhibit trains" traveling from town to town on Iowa's railroads. Cooperative Extension nationwide is the result of this model of support and funding.
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[edit] Birthplace of the Computer
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[edit] Chemical Analysis Innovation
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| Pioneering work in inductively coupled plasma spectroscopy at Iowa State led to an analysis tool that's standard in thousands of laboratories worldwide. Developed in 1966 by professor and Ames Laboratory deputy director Velmer Fassel, ICP instruments rapidly determine almost all elements to the parts per trillion level in substances such as oil, blood and soils. In 1982, the analysis tool identified the poison in contaminated Tylenol pain medicine that caused seven deaths.
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[edit] Finest Blue Cheese
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| Iowa State is home to the process that produces the world's finest blue cheese. In 1937, Iowa State dairy microbiology professor Clarence Lane and Bernard Hammer developed a blue cheese process using homogenized milk. The Lane and Hammer process is now the standard for the blue cheese industry.
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[edit] First Ag Engineering Degree
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| The first agricultural engineering degree in the world was granted at Iowa State University in 1910. J. Brownlee Davidson led the development of the discipline which applied engineering and agricultural sciences to biological systems. The graduate, Jacob E. Waggoner, became widely known, organizing similar departments at other universities, and specializing in rural electrification and agricultural communications. Today, universities around the world have agricultural and/or biological engineering departments.
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[edit] First Artist-in-Residence
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| Christian Petersen was the first artist-in-residence at a university in the United States when he sculpted at Iowa State from 1934 through 1955. Petersen is becoming recognized as one of the best Regionalist sculptors in the nation. His 12 monumental landmark sculptures on campus include Marriage Ring and Joy. Petersen also created over 400 smaller studio pieces during his residency tenure at Iowa State.
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[edit] First Land-Grant
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| Iowa Started an education revolution as the first state to accept the 1862 Morril Act terms. The act allowed Iowa to sell federal land to finance a new college open to all regardless of wealth, race or gender; offering a practical education in agriculture, engineering and military sciences as well as classical studies; and sharing research knowledge with all Iowans. Iowa State University officially opened in 1869 and was the first coeducational land-grant school.
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[edit] First Land-Grant Home Economics College
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| In 1871, Iowa State became the first land-grant institution in the nation to teach "domestic science." In 1872, Mary B. Welch, wife of Iowa State President Adonijah Welch, became the first domestic science instructor giving lectures to support laboratory classesin "kitchen, dining room and laundry." From these beginnings grew the nation's first land-grant college of family and consumer sciences.
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[edit] First Statistical Laboratory
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| Established in 1933, the Statistical Laboratory at Iowa State was the first research and consulting institute of its kind in the country. Early emphasis on agriculture data analysis has continued, however the laboratory's range of activities now includes statistical applications in social, physical, engineering and biological sciences for clients worldwide.
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[edit] First Veterinary Medicine College
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| In 1879, Iowa State Universityestablished the first public college of veterinary medicine in the United States. In 1903, Iowa State began offering the nation’s first four-year professional program in veterinary medicine. Today, veterinary graduates of Iowa State are working as professionals in animal health and public health in every state of the U.S. and in dozens of countries around the globe.
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[edit] First Water Tower
[edit] Innovative Baler
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| Farmers were saved from the backbreaking chore of slinging hay bales in the 1960s when Iowa State agricultural engineering professor Wesley Buchele and a group of student researchers invented a baler that produced large, round bales that could be moved by tractor. The baler has become the predominant forage-handling machine in the United States.
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[edit] Largest Grant Wood Murals
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| Grant Wood's largest murals are located in Iowa State's Parks Library. Wood, best known for his painting American Gothic that depicts a stoic farm couple, was commissioned by Iowa State in the 1930s to design Breaking the Prairie Sod and When Tillage Begins. A native Iowan, Wood is onsidered a leading exponent of American Regionalist art.
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[edit] Largest Student-Organized Festival
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| Veishea, founded in 1922, is the nation's largest student-run celebration. The name is an acronym for the colleges at Iowa State in 1922 - Veterinary Medicine, Engineering, Industrial-Science, Home Economics, and Agriculture. Each spring, Veishea attracts thousands of people to campus for student performances, cherry pies, a huge parade featuring student-built floats, and open houses sponsored by academic units and student clubs.
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