Image: Eli Whitney milling machine 1818--001

Description: 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. Nonetheless, it is still an important early milling machine, regardless of its exact provenance details. Another early milling machine is one from Middletown, Connecticut, circa 1818.
Title: Eli Whitney milling machine 1818--001
Credit: Roe, Joseph Wickham (1916). English and American Tool Builders. New Haven, Connecticut, USA: Yale University Press. LCCN 16-011753. Reprinted by McGraw-Hill, New York and London, 1926 (LCCN 27-024075); and by Lindsay Publications, Inc., Bradley, IL, USA (ISBN 978-0-917914-73-7).
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Permission: PD-US
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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