Eli Whitney's Positive Effects

In the midst of a technologically saturated lifestyle, I stand by the idea that technology’s impact on the United States was once empowering, but has began to hinder the minds of average Americans. Many individuals go about their day without recognition of their use of short cuts that weren’t available a mere ten years ago, let alone the use of developed inventions that began one hundred years ago. I feel immensely fortunate to be apart of what seems like one of the last generations to physically understand what the human race has grown from because technology has shifted our mental and physical capacity to comprehend and teach information. Regardless of the negative and positive perspectives upon technological advances, the emergence of …show more content…
Born on December eighth, seventeen sixty-five on a farm in Westborough, Massachusetts, Whitney left his home as a college graduate from Yale to travel to the South in order for him to tutor on a plantation to pay off school debts. Once Whitney noticed the desperation of the South’s condition, he continued to encourage his employer, Catherine Greene, to fix simple inaccuracies that would be financially beneficial to the upcoming business. Greene’s foundation of assisting the budget, and their combined moral efforts set up the proper groundwork for the invention’s success, leading to the accomplishment of the product’s patent. Historians have contemplated the idea of Greene designing the cotton gin, implying that Whitney simply constructed the material together and applied for the machine’s patent since women could not do so at the time. The young machine’s capability consisted of collecting twenty bales of cotton for every single bail collected by slave labor, which consisted of the procedure of extracting seeds from the cotton fibers. Much of the approaching cotton work was appealed with other inventions from the Industrial Revolution, like the contraptions made to spin out and weave product.“But the invention, by the Englishman Richard Arkwright, of a large spinning frame that required powermoved the spinning process from the home to the factory” (Meltzer 15). Whitney constructed the idea of what would later be known as the American system of large scale manufacturing, promoting the positive effects of mass production in order to lob over politician’s votes to pass legislation that would standardize these ideals. Whitney deceased in eighteen twenty-five during the rise of the growth of newly formed apparatus and concepts, but the wisdom and industrial