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Eli Whitney secures a government contract for "ten thousand stand of arms" to be delivered in two years. He proposed to manufacture guns by a new method in which he would "make the same parts of different guns, as the locks, for example, as much like each other as the successive impressions of a copper-plate engraving." |
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