Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney
Name: Eli Whitney
Born: December 8, 1765 in Westborough, Massachusetts
Education: Yale College
Occupations: inventor, farm laborer, teacher
Wife: Henrietta Edwards
Strength/Interests: inventor, machines
Some claim that the cotton gin allowed slavery to thrive in the south because it made plantation owners wealthy
Interesting Facts
1. His mother died when he was 11
2. Advocated the importance of interchangeable parts in manufacturing
3. Invented the cotton gin
4. Didn’t make money on his invention of the cotton gin because it was so easy for others to recreate and make on their own
5. His idea of machine-made, interchangeable parts was the beginning of what would become known as the "American system" of mass production.
Death: January 8, 1825
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Eli Whitney was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South.
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