Eli Whitney is considered to be one of the innovators. Whitney began tutoring in South Carolina after graduating from Yale. In fact, upon his arrival, his salary proposal was cut in half, causing him ...

Asa Whitney (1791-1874) and Early Plans for a Transcontinental Railroad ... (Eli Whitney, inventor of the ... he faded into private life.

Eli Whitney received a patent on ... lexicographer, translator, and author Noah Webster (1758 - 1843), early 1800s. ... enter the less celebrated but most fruitful time of his life; ...

Eli Whitney’s contract in the amount of $134,000 for 10,000 muskets, was issued on Jan. 14, 1798. But at the time he put his pen to that document, he had not the financial means nor the physical ...

1793: Eli Whitney applies to patent his new invention: a machine that quickly separates cotton seeds from cotton fibers. The cotton gin was the little engine that could — and did — transform ...

By the 1820s purchasing jobs sent him often to Europe, where in 1830 Whitney had the opportunity to ride an early British steam locomotive. By middle age Whitney oversaw a successful import business.