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 | 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.
Maker of Machines
Title | Maker of Machines PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Mitchell |
Publisher | Millbrook Press |
Pages | 68 |
Release | 2004-08-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1575057794 |
Eli Whitney’s love of inventing and pondering new ideas made him one of America’s greatest inventors. Best known for inventing the cotton gin, one of the most important American inventions of the century, he changed cotton production forever. A few years later, Whitney invented machines to make muskets that were identical. The first mass-manufacturing business in the country, his musket factory revolutionized the way Americans made things.
Eli Whitney
Title | Eli Whitney PDF eBook |
Author | Katie Bagley |
Publisher | Capstone |
Pages | 66 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780736815536 |
A biography of Eli Whitney, the inventor of the cotton gin, whose application of standardized parts to the production of weapons and other machines was a major influence in the development of industry.
A Discovery Book - Eli Whitney, Great Inventor
Title | A Discovery Book - Eli Whitney, Great Inventor PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Lee Latham |
Publisher | Hassell Street Press |
Pages | 88 |
Release | 2021-09-10 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781015206816 |
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Eli Whitney
Title | Eli Whitney PDF eBook |
Author | Tracy J. Garcia |
Publisher | The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Pages | 26 |
Release | 2013-01-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1477701745 |
Eli Whitney changed manufacturing with the cotton gin and helped make improvements in the area of mass production through interchangeable parts. Readers will see how Whitney also drastically changed farming in America with his inventions.
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.