Eli Whitney is mostly remembered for inventing a machine called the cotton gin, which separates cotton seeds from the cotton fibers. That was not his only contributions, another was the interchangeable parts. He was credited with inventing the milling machine although many scientists think he was not the inventor. His inventions play an important role in the agricultural revolution. Eli Whitney was born in 1765 in Westborough Massachusetts. His dad was a farmer. Young man Whitney became a manufacturer of nails. Whitney attended Yale College (now called Yale University) and graduated in 1792. After college he was with a widow of the revolutionary war hero Nathanael Greene. She told him to accept a job at her Mulberry Grove plantation. He invented the cotton
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The muskets were to be copies of the 1763 French Charleville model, of which the government gave 2 or 3 to each contractor to follow. When Whitney signed the contract he had no machines, no workers nothing. Whitney wrote "I am persuaded that machinery moved by water adapted to this Business would greatly diminish the labor and facilitate the manufacture of this Article. Machines for forging, rolling, floating,boring,grinding,polishing, etc, may all be use of advantage…” (May 13, 1798). In 1795 while Whitney was away from the shop, the men, took advantage of the easy working atmosphere, and went out late for breakfast. A fire broke out which destroyed all but a new building in the back. Whitney rebuilt and in his new shop, he had each worker make only one part of the cotton gin. Which is a crank, a spindle a wheel, etc, which he made each worker and made them do so by a drawing. Whitney was involved in about 60 lawsuits. He was finally established an inventor of the cotton gin and would collect more 90,000 dollars from the suits. Even though the time and money spent on the suits meant little profit on the invention. In the end Eli Whitney he was an inventor who helped and brought on to them the American
The muskets were to be copies of the 1763 French Charleville model, of which the government gave 2 or 3 to each contractor to follow. When Whitney signed the contract he had no machines, no workers nothing. Whitney wrote "I am persuaded that machinery moved by water adapted to this Business would greatly diminish the labor and facilitate the manufacture of this Article. Machines for forging, rolling, floating,boring,grinding,polishing, etc, may all be use of advantage…” (May 13, 1798). In 1795 while Whitney was away from the shop, the men, took advantage of the easy working atmosphere, and went out late for breakfast. A fire broke out which destroyed all but a new building in the back. Whitney rebuilt and in his new shop, he had each worker make only one part of the cotton gin. Which is a crank, a spindle a wheel, etc, which he made each worker and made them do so by a drawing. Whitney was involved in about 60 lawsuits. He was finally established an inventor of the cotton gin and would collect more 90,000 dollars from the suits. Even though the time and money spent on the suits meant little profit on the invention. In the end Eli Whitney he was an inventor who helped and brought on to them the American