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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]
The Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography. Facts on File/Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1988–. [1] Bly, Robert W. (1 May 1999). The Encyclopedia of business letters, fax memos, and e-mail. Career Press. ISBN 978-1-56414-375-4. Business leader profiles for students. Gale Research, 1999–2002. ISSN 1520-9296. Carey, Charles W., Ian C ...
Cotton was at first a small-scale crop in the South. Cotton farming boomed following the improvement of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney. [59] It was 50 times more productive at removing the seeds than with a roller. Soon, large cotton plantations, based on slave labor, expanded in the richest lands from the Carolinas westward to Texas.
Eli Whitney Blake Jr. (1857), American scientist and educator, great-nephew of Eli Whitney [2] John Thomas Croxton (1857), Civil War Brigadier General, United States Ambassador to Bolivia [11]: 103 Moses Coit Tyler (1857), professor of history at Cornell University [16] Burton Norvell Harrison (1859), private secretary to Jefferson Davis [4]: 90
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 ...
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.
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