United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825)
1It was in this house that Eli Whitney invented the cotton-gin.
2He was trusting and decent, just the way Eli Whitney was.
3I once asked a thirteen-year-old girl, in a history class, when Eli Whitney lived.
4Although Eli Whitney took out patents, every planter infringed them.
5A man named Eli Whitney made a machine for taking seeds out of the cotton.
6The invention of the cotton-gin by Eli Whitney, [Footnote: Am.
7For what the cotton planter owes to Eli Whitney, the rice planter owes to Mr. Lucas.
8He was so handy that the people said there was nothing Eli Whitney could not do.
9His name was Elias Howe and he hailed from Eli Whitney's old home, Worcester County, Massachusetts.
10This sudden development was due to the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney, in 1793.
11His father was a great man, a natural philosopher, and almost an Eli Whitney in mechanical ingenuity.
12It was Eli Whitney, more than any other man, who helped to build up this great trade.
13With a contract in hand, in January 1847 he convinced his friend Eli Whitney to make the pistols.
14A Yankee schoolmaster, Eli Whitney, set King Cotton on a throne by his invention of the cotton-gin in 1792.
15There he saw and scrutinized every detail of the factory system that Eli Whitney had established forty years earlier.
16His name was Eli Whitney.
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