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Eli Whitneys invention of the cotton gin revolutionized the cotton industry in the United States. Prior to his invention, farming cotton required hundreds of manhours to separate the cottonseed from the raw cotton fibers. Simple seedremoving devices ...
http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/cotton_gin.htm
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- A Make Anything
The Eli Whitney Museum and Workshop is an experimental learning workshop for students, teachers, and families. We collect, interpret, and teach experiments that are the roots of design and invention. ...
http://www.eliwhitney.org/museum/about-eli-whitney/inventor
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- The Eli Whitney
American inventor, pioneer, mechanical engineer, and manufacturer Eli Whitney is best remembered as the inventor of the cotton gin. He also affected the industrial development of the United States when, in manufacturing muskets for the government, he ...
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/152.html
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- The Encarta Whitney
Eli Whitney 17651825, American inventor, best known for his invention of the cotton gin.Whitney was born in Westboro, Massachusetts, on December 8, 1765, and educated at Yale College now Yale University. In 1792 he visited the plantation, near Savann ...
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761563164/Eli_Whitney.html
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- A Invention Dimension
The third best known American inventor of the preatomic age, after Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, is probably Eli Whitney. Whitney certainly transformed the economies of the antebellum North and South. But among invention aficionados, his i ...
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/whitney.html
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