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Article: Machining the Future.(Brief Article)
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- Resource: Engineering & Technology for a Sustainable World
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- August 1, 2000
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Everyone knows that Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin.
But few have heard of W. Stanley Anthony, the man who made the cotton gin better.
Since 1971, Anthony, 54, has been an agricultural engineer and research leader with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Research Service Cotton Ginning Research Unit in Stoneville, Miss. He focuses on machinery development, cotton bale packaging, machinery noise reduction and computer modeling.
Anthony led a team that recently developed the Computerized Cotton Gin Process Control System, which increases profits for producers by improving ginned cotton quality. His patented "Intelligin" ...