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Coat of Arms of Eli Whitney. Whitney was born in Westborough, Massachusetts, on December 8, 1765, the eldest child of Eli Whitney Sr., a prosperous farmer, and his wife Elizabeth Fay, also of Westborough. The younger Eli was famous during his lifetime and after his death by the name "Eli Whitney", though he was technically Eli Whitney Jr.
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]
A model of a 19th-century cotton gin on display at the Eli Whitney Museum in Hamden, Connecticut. A Cotton Gin—meaning "Cotton engine" [1] [2] —is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation. [3]
Eli Whitney Blake, Sr. (January 27, 1795 – August 18, 1886) was an American inventor, best known for his mortise lock and stone-crushing machine, the latter of which earned him a place into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
The large order allowed Colt to establish a new firearm business. He hired Eli Whitney Blake, who was established in the arms business, to make his guns. [33] Colt used his prototype and Walker's improvements as the basis for a new design. From this new design, known as the Colt Walker, Blake produced the first thousand-piece order. The company ...
Her book Carry On, Mr. Bowditch won the Newbery Medal in 1956. [ 4 ] WorldCat reports that 12 of her 13 books most widely held in participating libraries are biographies of Bowditch (fictionalized), Eli Whitney, Samuel Morse , Rachel Carson , Elizabeth Blackwell , Francis Drake , Cyrus W. Field , Sam Houston (two, one brief and one ...
Whitney Houston tragically died of an accidental drowning in 2012, but her three brothers — John, Gary and Michael — have kept her memory alive.. The music icon, who was born on Aug. 9, 1963 ...
Edward Thornton. The United States through English Spectacles in 1792–1794. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 9, No. 2 (July 1885). Earl L. Bradsher. A Model American Library of 1793. Sewanee Review, Vol. 24, No. 4 (October 1916), pp. 458–475. The Democratic Societies of 1793 and 1794 in Kentucky, Pennsylvania and ...