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Improved ginning for better cotton.
Magazine article from: Agricultural Research; 12/1/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...a lot since March 14, 1794, when Eli Whitney won a patent for a new invention...cotton the king of U.S. crops. Before Whitney's invention, only a slick-seeded...varieties. By today's standards, Whitney's invention was a crude machine...
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Tell me in my ear, teacher: tales from an inner-city school.
Magazine article from: Commonweal; 4/21/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...City in the fall of 1962. I was assigned to Eli Whitney Vocational High School, now defunct. Whitney was, in the parlance of the time, a ghetto...application. I could imagine him holding out at Whitney for about ten years, at the most. The pupils...
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Music freight delivers ... savings: a new firm that specializes in music products shipping offers its clients "a healthier bottom line.".(BEHIND THE SCENES)
Magazine article from: Music Trades; 10/1/2006; 700+ words
; AT LEAST SINCE ELI WHITNEY and Henry Ford, business owners have sought to make their operations ever leaner, eliminating administrative layers and ensuring...
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Ariens Company.(In other news)
Magazine article from: Outdoor Power Equipment; 6/1/2007; 88 words
; The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) presented Dan Ariens, president of Ariens Company, with the Eli Whitney Productivity Award for his distinguished accomplishments in improving capability within the broad concept of orderly production...
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Secret life of a legendary inventor. (Gilbert Hyatt, inventor of the microprocessor)
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal; 10/29/1990; ; 700+ words
; Secret life of a legendary inventor Don't you hate getting hung out to dry? Remember Eli Whitney. Others stole and copy-catted his cotton gin's operating principle. Powerful interests fought him over royalties. Although granted...
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So you want to be an inventor? Invention award winner.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Children's Digest; 1/1/2003; ; 99 words
; You might be the next Cyrus McCormick, Alexander, Graham Bell, Charles Goodyear, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Eli Whitney, or Johannes Gutenberg. Do you know these inventors and their inventions? So You Want to Be An Inventor is inspiring, witty, and...
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Man arraigned in car crash that hurt 3.(LOCAL NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA); 6/16/2009; 247 words
; ...Priyanka Dayal WESTBORO - A local man who police say was driving drunk and speeding when he crashed his pickup truck on Eli Whitney Street was arraigned on criminal charges yesterday. The early-morning crash on June 7 left the driver, Ryan O'Connor...
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Designs on Manufacturing: keeping the manufacturing process in mind when designing medical devices saves companies time and money.(FEATURE: Design Services)(Cover story)
Magazine article from: Medical Product Outsourcing; 9/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...musket could not fit into another. Eli Whitney changed that. At the turn of the...system in France) eventually helped Whitney produce thousands of muskets with...1812. Historians have written that Whitney spent the rest of his life publicizing...
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Limit and safety switches: interchangeable components make choices nearly ... unlimited.(Five Star Product Of The Month)
Magazine article from: Designfax; 5/1/2004; ; 480 words
; ...source--James Watt's steam engine--and the introduction of interchangeable parts. The latter innovation, invented by Eli Whitney when he contracted to manufacture musket components, in turn led to mass production, easily replaced parts in a given...
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`Hostel II' lets girls take the fall.(ENTERTAINMENT)(Movie review)
Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA); 6/8/2007; 383 words
; Byline: Bob Strauss COLUMN: MOVIE REVIEW Eli Roth's Hostel was the class act of the current torture-porn cycle...are super-rich Beth (Lauren German), Lindsay Lohan doppelganger Whitney (Bijou Phillips) and nerdsicle Lorna (Heather Matarazzo, still...
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