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Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Eli Whitney's love of inventing and pondering new ideas made him one of America's greatest inventors. Best known for inventing the cotton gin, one of the most important American inventions of the century, he changed cotton production forever. A few years later, Whitney invented machines to make muskets that were identical. The first mass-manufacturing business in the country, his musket factory revolutionized the way Americans made things.
8) Eli Whitney
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the inventor of the cotton gin, whose application of standardized parts to the production of weapons and other machines was a major influence in the development of industry.
13) Eli Whitney
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Introduces the life of Eli Whitney, including his childhood on a Massachusetts farm, his invention of the cotton gin, and his development of mass production, a process of making individual parts then assembling them into a finished product.
15) Eli Whitney
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
By exploring archival films, photographs and actual drawings and materials, students will learn of Eli Whitney and how invention of the cotton gin had an enormous economic impact on young America and slavery.
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