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5/2/17
Dr Cobb Stout
Ela SS Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney was born in December 8 1765 Westboro, Massachusetts and died January 8 1825 new haven Connecticut. Eli great known for making a cotton gin and Interchangeable parts. As Eli Whitney wrote after completing his 1798 contract to produce 10,000 stands of arms, "A good musket is a complicated engine and difficult to make.” Eli became an expert at making nails from a device of his own invention. When Whitney demonstrated his new cotton gin (“gin” being short for engine) to some colleagues with the device producing more cotton in an hour than what could
5/2/17
Dr Cobb Stout
Ela SS Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney was born in December 8 1765 Westboro, Massachusetts and died January 8 1825 new haven Connecticut. Eli great known for making a cotton gin and Interchangeable parts. As Eli Whitney wrote after completing his 1798 contract to produce 10,000 stands of arms, "A good musket is a complicated engine and difficult to make.” Eli became an expert at making nails from a device of his own invention. When Whitney demonstrated his new cotton gin (“gin” being short for engine) to some colleagues with the device producing more cotton in an hour than what could