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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. [1]

  2. May 8, 2024 · Eli Whitney was an American inventor, mechanical engineer, and manufacturer who lived in New England from the late 1700s to the early 1800s. He helped revolutionize cotton processing and factory manufacturing with his inventions and methods.

  3. Feb 4, 2010 · In 1794, U.S.-born inventor Eli Whitney (1765-1825) patented the cotton gin, a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from...

  4. Apr 2, 2014 · Eli Whitney was an American inventor who created the cotton gin and pushed the “interchangeable parts” mode of production. Updated: Jun 23, 2020 (1765-1825)

  5. Of all the post-Revolutionary Americans who grew up without knowing the name for what they felt within themselves, Eli Whitney had the most tortuous career. Yet more than any other one man, he shaped the opposing faces of both the North and South for a half-century to come.

  6. Inventor, mechanical engineer and manufacturing pioneer, Eli Whitney is best known as the inventor of the cotton gin, patented in 1794. An unforeseen byproduct of Whitney's invention, a labor-saving device, was to help preserve the institution of slavery in the South by making cotton production highly profitable.

  7. 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.

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