Engineer Eli Whitney died 35 years before the Civil War, but his most famous invention, the cotton gin, set the economic stage for war. Whitney's gin made cotton production far more efficient ...

click image for close-up In October of 1793, Eli Whitney sent a drawing of his new invention, the cotton gin, to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson in application for a patent. Jefferson replied ...

As schoolchildren, we learned the names of famous inventors from history: Alexander Graham Bell, Eli Whitney, Thomas Edison. Ask someone to name a famous modern-day inventor, though, and you’ll ...

In connexion with the centenary of these events, a list of twelve of the inventions that have done ... Elias Howe (1819-67); the cotton gin, Eli Whitney (1765-1825); the vulcanization of rubber ...

Today marks Eli Whitney’s 251st birthday. Although he’s known for a famous invention that completely transformed the economy of the south, Whitney’s roots are in Massachusetts. He was born ...

If you went to elementary school in the United States, you no doubt learned about Eli Whitney’s cotton gin ... and became famous for his labor-saving invention. He would go on to pioneer the ...