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The museum's main building is located on a portion of the Eli Whitney Gun Factory site, a gun factory erected by Eli Whitney in 1798. The museum focuses on teaching experiments that are the roots of design and invention, featuring hands-on building projects and exhibits on Whitney and A. C. Gilbert .
Eli Whitney Museum: Hamden: New Haven: Science: Inventions and inventor Eli Whitney, toy maker A.C. Gilbert: Enoch Kelsey House: Newington: Hartford: Historic house: Operated by the Newington Historical Society, late 18th-century house Fairfield Museum and History Center: Fairfield: Fairfield: Local
Eli Whitney Jr. (December 8, 1765 – January 8, 1825) was an American inventor, widely known for inventing the cotton gin in 1793, one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution that shaped the economy of the Antebellum South.
Flora Payne Whitney served as a museum trustee, then as vice president. From 1942 to 1974, she was the museum's president and chair, after which she served as honorary chair until her death in 1986. Her daughter Flora Miller Biddle served as president until 1995. Her book The Whitney Women and the Museum They Made was published in 1999. [60]
The Eli Whitney Museum's extensive A. C. Gilbert Project includes collections, a bibliography, and pictures of Gilbert; The Gilbert Electric Eye Set with Free Downloadable Manual; Slideshow: Golden Age of Chemistry Sets; Soaring and gliding aircraft This patent was assigned to A.C. Gilbert company. A less successful venture of the company
945 Madison Avenue, also known as the Breuer Building, is a museum building on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City.The Marcel Breuer-designed structure was built to house the Whitney Museum of American Art; it subsequently held a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and from 2021 to March 2024 was the temporary quarters of the Frick Collection while the Henry Clay Frick House ...
Eli Whitney Blake Jr. (April 20, 1836 – October 1, 1895) was an American scientist. His father and namesake was an inventor and partner of the Blake Brothers manufacturing firm. The origin of the name Eli Whitney comes from Blake senior's uncle Eli Whitney, who changed the face of the cotton industry with the invention of the cotton gin. [1]
The museum has a collection containing art, photography, furniture and other artifacts from throughout New Haven’s history and regularly presents programs and special exhibits. [ 1 ] The Museum features exhibitions on New Haven, La Amistad , local art and decorative arts, with collections associated with Eli Whitney , Winchester , Yale , East ...