Eli Whitney's Key Innovations Of The Industrial Revolution

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In 1794, U.S.- conceived creator Eli Whitney (1765-1825) protected the cotton gin, a machine that upset the generation of cotton by enormously accelerating the way toward expelling seeds from cotton fiber.Eli Whitney was an American innovator best known for developing the cotton gin. This was one of the key innovations of the Industrial Revolution and formed the economy of the Antebellum

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