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    Biography Of Eli Whitney

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    Eli Whitney was born in the year 1775 and was born in Westboro, Mass. Eli worked with his father on their farm, but Eli had rather worked in his fathers shop making nails. To earn money Eli he taught a school and he graduated from Yale in the year 1792. Eli tutored children in a plantation near Savannah, Ga. In Georgia Eli was well known for his inventions of domestic contrivances for his hostess. While in Georgia Eli

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    Eli Whitney      Before the invention of the cotton gin, Americans would remove cottonseed by hand. Slaves were hired to complete this procedure. This would take a very long time and something had to be done. Later on, a man named Eli Whitney invented a device called the cotton gin. The cotton gin is a machine for removing the seeds from cotton fiber. His invention could produce up to fifty pounds of cotton each

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    -- rice, indigo, corn, and some wheat -- made for no great wealth. Slaves cost something, not only to buy but to maintain, and some Southern planters thought that conditions had reached a point where a slave's labor no longer paid for his care. Eli Whitney came to the south in 1793, conveniently enough, during the time when

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    Historians believe that one of the greatest pioneers in the birth of automation, American inventor, pioneer, mechanical engineer, and manufacturer is Eli Whitney. He was the inventor of the cotton gin that made the South become the cotton producing part of the country because Whitney's cotton gin was able to successfully pull out the seeds from the cotton bolls.“I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it

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    Eli Whitney Cotton Gin

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    past. These people included writers, soldiers, presidents, actors, inventors, athletes, musician, and artists. Eli Whitney is known for inventing the cotton gin and promoting interchangeable parts. Did Whitney deserve praise for the cotton gin and the idea of interchangeable parts? Yes, his cotton gin increased cotton production and interchangeable parts allowed faster assembly lines. Whitney met Catherine Greene, a widow of a Revolutionary war veteran and Phineas Miller, a manager of Greene's plantation

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    Eli Whitney was born in Westboro, Massachusetts and raised on a farm. During his early years, he had a strong knack for making machines and working with technology and soon began crafting things on his own. He first began by making nails, canes, and ladies’ hatpins. Before Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin, he was a student at Yale University and intended to become a private tutor after school, but stayed with a woman named Catherine Greene instead. During his stay on her plantation, he learned

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    Eli Whitney Eli Whitney was born on December 8, 1765 in Westborough, Massachusetts. When he was young his mother died. At a young age he also started to tork at his father's shop. He worked as a school teacher and farmer so he could make enough money to attend a college. He was able to save enough money to attend college at Yale University. After he had graduaed from Yale University, he studied about law, but did not finish studying about the law because he couldn’t pay tuition. Eli decided

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    Have you ever researched how your clothes were made versus how they were made one hundred years ago? Or from what they were made? Well, if you did, sometime in your research you would probably encounter the name Eli Whitney. Eli Whitney had a huge influence on America. He invented the cotton gin and introduced interchangeable parts to people. The cotton gin affected how clothes were made. Interchangeable parts affected how everything was made. They both greatly sped up the process for many things

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    Eli whitney is a American inventor, He is famous and most remembered for his cotton gin. If you don't know what a cotton gin is, it is a machine that is used to quickly and easily separate cotton fibers. This cotton gin was really needed and useful for the average worker back then. Eli made this to make the cotton farmers work easier and with this work gets done so much faster and brings them more money. Why did he become interested? He was inspired by this when he went to georgia he read a book

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    Cause and Effect: Eli Whitney Because cotton was hard to deseed I made cotton easy to clean. Along with that I made parts that can be swapped, so it was easier to fix weapons. I’m Eli Whitney. I was born on December 8, 1765 in Westboro, Massachusetts. My early life was on a farm with a knack for machine technology. During the revolutionary war I created a machine to create nails. Before I created the cotton Gin I went to Yale college. After graduation I was hired to tutor in South Carolina. Upon

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