Whitney, Eli
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A one-page encyclopedia entry on Eli Whitney (1765-1825), the American inventor of the cotton gin. It covers his education at Yale, his work in Georgia on a machine to separate cotton seed from fibre, the patent litigation that consumed his profits, and his later firearms manufacture at Whitneyville, Connecticut, using interchangeable parts.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1922
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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