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 ...
According to biography.com, after a winter of work ... Today, in nearby Hamden, there’s an Eli Whitney Museum and Workshop that aims to teach about the roots of design and invention.
On June 20, 1793, Eli Whitney, who had graduated from Yale the previous year, wrote to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, requesting a patent for his new invention, the cotton gin. The gin ...
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