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. (From Wikipedia) More about Eli Whitney:
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9 additional books about Eli Whitney in the extended shelves: Memoir of Eli Whitney, Esq. (Durrie & Peck, 1846), by Denison Olmsted (page images at HathiTrust)
Lives of eminent literary and scientific men of America. (D. Appleton & company, 1850), by James Wynne (page images at HathiTrust)
The cotton gin : the history of its invention (The author, 1901), by Daniel Augustus Tompkins (page images at HathiTrust)
Memoir of Eli Whitney, esq. (Durrie & Peck, 1846), by Denison Olmsted (page images at HathiTrust)
Eli Whitney and the machine age. (F. Watts, 1959), by Wilma Pitchford Hays and Alfred Petersen (page images at HathiTrust)
Four American inventors: (Werner school book company, 1901), by F. M. Perry (page images at HathiTrust)
Success in life., The mechanic. (G.P. Putnam,etc.,etc., 1850), by Louisa C. Tuthill (page images at HathiTrust)
Four American inventors; Robert Fulton, Samuel F. B. Morse, Eli Whitney, Thomas A. Edison; a book for young Americans (Werner school book co., 1901), by F. M. Perry (page images at HathiTrust)
The Whitney firearms. (Standard Publications, 1946), by Claud E. Fuller (page images at HathiTrust)
Books by Eli Whitney: Books in the extended shelves: Whitney, Eli, 1765-1825: Correspondence relative to the invention of the cotton gin ([n.p., in the 19th century), also by Matthew Brown Hammond (page images at HathiTrust) Whitney, Eli, 1765-1825: Cotton gin : patented March 14, 1794 (s.n., 1959), also by United States Patent Office (page images at HathiTrust) Whitney, Eli, 1765-1825: An oration on the death of Mr. Robert Grant, a member of the senior class, in Yale-college, Connecticut: who died on the fourth of April, 1792, ætat. XXIII. ([Boston, 1939) (page images at HathiTrust)
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