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Anthony's Double-Action Patent Churn, 1850. 'This new apparatus consists of a strong dovetailed box, with a close-fitting lid...motion is given by turning the handle...The Churn is described in the American journals as the invention of Messrs. Anthony and Emerson, of Fulton-street, New York...One of its recommendations is its great simplicity. It operates on a beautiful principle; the mechanical action of the air, which is mingled with the cream in such a manner that a thorough separation of the particles takes place, preventing the cream from frothing on the surface, and doing its work with astonishing rapidity, and in the most thorough manner. Butter is produced by this Churn in twelve minutes from cream, and in five minutes from milk; and so perfect is the operation, that more butter, and better quality, is obtained from the same quantity of cream than by any other method ever yet tried'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.