Four metalworking pioneers join Machine Tool Hall of Fame.

1998 inductees honored for inventive genius, business acumen, distribution innovation, and design originality.

Eli Whitney grasps a preeminent position in the annals of metalworking. Although ofttimes incorrectly credited with the exhibition of interchangeable machined parts for muskets, Whitney secur his reputation as an inventive genius with the unravelling of his cotton gin, patented in 1794 This was a machine that would revolutionize cotton production and bring prosperity to the southern

The irony of this exhibition was that, instead of making Whitney wealthy, it was