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Eli Whitney dies. His genius led King Cotton to triumph in the South, but it also created the technology that preserved the Union. |
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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 cop ... |
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The United States exports a total of 6,276,000 pounds of cotton in 1795. |
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The United States exports a total of 1,601,000 pounds of cotton in 1794. |
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Eli Whitney finally patents the cotton gin.
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Eli Whitney and Phineas Miller draw up a partnership agreement with intent to patent and manufacture cotton gins and to conduct a cotton ginning business. This turned out to be a grave mistake, because they could not produce enough machines to gin the rapidly increasing crops and competitors' machin ... |
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At the age of 15, Eli Whitney begins to manufacture nails in his father's shop and even hired an assistant to fill the orders. He later turned to making hatpins when the close of the American Revolution reduced demand for nails. |
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Inventor of the Cotton Gin and a pioneer in the use of mass production methods, Eli Whitney is born in Westborough, Massachusetts.
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