“Eli Whitney was born on the 8th of December, 1765 in Westborough, Massachusetts to Eli and Elizabeth Whitney. Though he grew up on a farm with his two brothers and one sister, though he grew up on a farm, but he was more inclined towards machinery and technology from an early age. Eli once dismantled his father's valuable watch in an inquisitive attempt to know how it worked”. He became a skilled at making nails from a device of his during the revolutionary war; furthermore he later devised canes and ladies hatpins, but he was best known for inventing the cotton gin, ‘gin’ which is derived from the word engine. “After passing out from high school, Whitney attended Yale College, now known to be Yale University
“Eli Whitney was born on the 8th of December, 1765 in Westborough, Massachusetts to Eli and Elizabeth Whitney. Though he grew up on a farm with his two brothers and one sister, though he grew up on a farm, but he was more inclined towards machinery and technology from an early age. Eli once dismantled his father's valuable watch in an inquisitive attempt to know how it worked”. He became a skilled at making nails from a device of his during the revolutionary war; furthermore he later devised canes and ladies hatpins, but he was best known for inventing the cotton gin, ‘gin’ which is derived from the word engine. “After passing out from high school, Whitney attended Yale College, now known to be Yale University