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Eli Whitney Jr. (December 8, 1765 – January 8, 1825) was an American inventor, widely known for inventing the cotton gin in 1793, one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution that shaped the economy of the Antebellum South.
Jul 18, 2023 · American inventor and engineer Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1794. His journey into the halls of history began at Mulberry Grove, a Georgia plantation where he worked as a tutor. There, Whitney witnessed the challenges of cotton processing and cooked up a groundbreaking solution.
Sep 24, 2019 · Eli Whitney (December 8, 1765–January 8, 1825) was an American inventor, manufacturer, and mechanical engineer who invented the cotton gin. One of the most significant inventions of the American Industrial Revolution , the cotton gin turned cotton into a highly profitable crop.
Floods and earthquakes are cataclysmic; but their effects are forgotten and the scarred earth heals. Whitney's cataclysmic invention was the start of an avalanche. In the South, nothing was ever to be the same again. Whitney's boyhood was precocious in a way that his neighbors could not comprehend. He had an instinctive understanding of mechanisms.
May 8, 2024 · Cotton gin, machine for cleaning cotton of its seeds, invented in the United States by Eli Whitney in 1793. It is credited with fixing cotton cultivation, virtually to the exclusion of other crops, in the U.S. South and so institutionalizing slavery.
Cotton Gin. Inducted in 1974. Born Dec. 8, 1765 - Died Jan. 8, 1825. American inventor, pioneer, mechanical engineer, and manufacturer Eli Whitney is best remembered as the inventor of the cotton gin.
Economy-Building Invention. After working his way through college at Yale, Whitney moved to South Carolina. There he saw how hard it was to separate the green seeds from short-staple cotton. In...
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