Eli Whitney
December 8, 1765 - January 8, 1825
Westborough, Massachusetts
In 1798 he built a firearms factory in New Haven. That’s where he worked and built his inventions.
WANTED FOR: He was famous for inventing the cotton gin, a machine that changed cotton growing in the South. He was also a pioneer, a mechanical engineer, and a manufacturer. He manufactured muskets (smoothbore shoulder gun) for the government. He went to Yale for college.
Quotes: “I have not only Arms but a large proportion of Armourers to make.”
http://www.eliwhitney.org/inventor.htm
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/152.html
http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/inventor/whitney/index.html
Ashley Lee 04
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