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  2. Eli Whitney - Wikipedia

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    Eli Whitney Jr. (December 8, 1765 – January 8, 1825) ... Therefore, no one person can properly be described as the inventor of the milling machine.

  3. File:Eli Whitney milling machine 1818--001.png - Wikipedia

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  4. Interchangeable parts - Wikipedia

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    Unlike Eli Whitney, Terry manufactured his products without government funding. Terry saw the potential of clocks becoming a household object. With the use of a milling machine, Terry was able to mass-produce clock wheels and plates a few dozen at the same time.

  5. Timeline of United States inventions (before 1890) - Wikipedia

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    Eli Whitney (1765–1825) is best known for inventing the cotton gin in October 1793 and patenting it on March 14, 1794; [1] ... 1816 Milling machine.

  6. American system of manufacturing - Wikipedia

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    A critical factor in making interchangeable metal parts was the invention of several machine tools, such as the slide rest lathe, screw cutting lathe, turret lathe, milling machine and metal planer. One of the most important and versatile of these machine tools was David Wilkinson's lathe , for which he received a $10,000 award from the ...

  7. Industrial Revolution - Wikipedia

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    The milling machine, a fundamental machine tool, is believed to have been invented by Eli Whitney, who was a government contractor who built firearms as part of this program. Another important invention was the Blanchard lathe, invented by Thomas Blanchard. The Blanchard lathe, or pattern tracing lathe, was actually a shaper that could produce ...

  8. Milling (machining) - Wikipedia

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    This milling machine was long credited to Eli Whitney and dated to circa 1818. From the 1910s through the 1940s, this version of its provenance was widely published. In the 1950s and 1960s, various historians of technology mostly discredited the view of this machine as the first miller and possibly even of Whitney as its builder.

  9. Machine tool - Wikipedia

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    Eli Whitney milling machine, c. 1818. Important early machine tools included the slide rest lathe, screw-cutting lathe, turret lathe, milling machine, pattern tracing lathe, shaper, and metal planer, which were all in use before 1840. [12] With these machine tools the decades-old objective of producing interchangeable parts was finally realized ...