Maker of Machines
Title | Maker of Machines PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Mitchell |
Publisher | Millbrook Press |
Pages | 72 |
Release | 2004-01-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781575056036 |
Presents a biography of the inventor who created the cotton gin as well as a machine that could mass-produce muskets.
Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
Title | Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin PDF eBook |
Author | Jessica Gunderson |
Publisher | Capstone |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780736878951 |
"In graphic novel format, tells the story of how Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, and the effects it had on the South"--Provided by publisher.
Eli Whitney and the Birth of American Technology
Title | Eli Whitney and the Birth of American Technology PDF eBook |
Author | Constance McLaughlin Green |
Publisher | |
Pages | 215 |
Release | 2003-01-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780758196422 |
Eli Whitney, Great Inventor
Title | Eli Whitney, Great Inventor PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Lee Latham |
Publisher | |
Pages | 88 |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | Inventors |
ISBN |
A brief biography of the inventor of a gin to seed upland cotton and of a way to mass produce musket locks.
Eli Whitney
Title | Eli Whitney PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine A. Welch |
Publisher | LernerClassroom |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 2007-01-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0822585448 |
True or false? Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, a machine for removing seeds from cotton. False! Eli Whitney was the first person to build a wire-toothed cotton gin. But Eli's gin was not the first machine of its kind. He made nails to earn money when he was a boy. He went to court to protect his wire-toothed cotton gin when others tried to build similar machines. He started his own musket-making business.
The Story of Eli Whitney
Title | The Story of Eli Whitney PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Lee Latham |
Publisher | |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 1953 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
A biography of Eli Whitney tracing his long legal journey to win rights over his pirated cotton gin and to fulfill his Government contract for ten thousand muskets with interchangable parts.
Eli Whitney
Title | Eli Whitney PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Bush Gibson |
Publisher | Mitchell Lane |
Pages | 65 |
Release | 2020-02-11 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1545749884 |
Eli Whitney was an inventor best known for his invention of the cotton gin. But it was his ideas and methods that had the greatest impact on America, bringing the country into the Industrial Revolution. He grew up as a farmer s son, but was often found in his father s workshop. As a boy during the American Revolution, he started his first business as a supplier of nails. Against his family s wishes, he insisted on getting an education from Yale. It was while he was studying to be a lawyer that he stumbled upon a solution to clean cotton. Whitney most enjoyed looking at a problem and trying to solve it, whether it was how to clean cotton or lock a desk. He created solutions with easily understood steps. With these steps, he developed a system of manufacturing that worked well with anything that had pieces to be put together. It would be used to mass-produce guns, sewing machines, and, later, cars. Today s manufacturing can be traced to Eli Whitney.