Brief Summary: Eli Whitney And The Revolutionary War

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Eli was born in the winter which was on December 8, 1765. He spent his youth on a family farm near Westboro, Massachusetts when he was eleven the fighting at nearby Lexington and Concord ignited the Revolutionary war. Eli showed a native skill for mechanical work (he made a playable violin at twelve). Since war came prices for nearly eatery thing shot up, for instance nails. Eli talked to his father into letting him install forge. On a machine he made he began producing nails cheaply so that everyone can buy. Soon Eli's demand for nails was so great that without asking his dad he found a work man who helped out and visited many workshops with Whitney. When the war ended many many products became more cheap like Eli's nails. So he became a producer of hat pins for women. …show more content…
But he didn't have money to pay his tuition. To earn money he found a job teaching. In those years you just needed a towns approval to be a teacher. To prepare himself for Yale Eli took classes at an academy nearby. Eli Whitney graduated from Yale three years later. To earn income Whitney tutored the children of a school in South Carolina named Major DuPont. Whitney arrived in South Carolina and found out his salary was cut in half. Eli was discussed and and quit teaching. Mrs. Greene (the woman in the boat with him) invited Whitney to come with her to her Mulberry Grove. Whitney agreed to go and decided to stay for a while. Shortly after Whitney settled in, some neighbors dropped in and started talking about how bad times were; they couldn't make money with their crops; the only variety of Cotten that would grow in their area would be the awful green-seed kind which takes a lot of time separating the seed. In the book it states that, "One planter grumbled that, the green-seed Cotten wasn't much better than a useless weed; if only some kind of machine could be invented and do the work for

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