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Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney was an American inventor, mechanical engineer, and manufacturer. He is best remembered for inventing the cotton gin, an automated machine that separates the cottonseed from the short-staple cotton fiber.
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Who benefited from the development of the cotton gin and why was it important to so many groups?
The Southern plantation owners benefited from the cotton gin the most. It used to be a full day's work for a slave to pick one pound of lint from three pounds of cotton, but thanks to the cotton gin, the process sped up considerably. In fact, you could even say that the cotton gin gave people one more reason to support slavery, since the invention made slavery so much more financially beneficial.
The cotton gin was important to so many groups because cotton itself was important to so many groups: The South exported cotton to the North and to foreign nations, and the Northerners used it in their textile factories. The surplus of cotton helped spark the industrial revolution.
How is fabric made out of cotton made?
Pretty much the same as they did 100 years ago but now they use machinary instead of doing it by hand.
Cotton is cleaned and pulled through a comb to separate and straighten the fibers. Then they are spun into cords and made into threads. The threads are then woven into sheets of fabric.
Where can you print stuff out about Eli Whitney?
You can always print stuff on websites. Just type in Eli Whitney in google.
What manufacturing concept helped Eli Whitney earn a contract from the federal government?
ginning cotton
What was Eli Whitney major accomplishments?
Inventing the cotton gin in order to stop the slow and tedious work of slaves.
How did Eli Whitney's inventions help the future?
It saved slaves from doing hours of work but did not affect the future in any important way other then to separate seeds from cotton.
Eli Whitney invented it iso that he could do work faster
Invented the cotton gin and the further developed the process of interchangeable parts.
Here's a sort biography of his life:
Eli Whitney was born no December 8th, 1765 to Eli and Elizabeth Whitney. His parents had no idea that their son would be a famous American inventor!
Eli Whitney liked learning how thing worked; his father's watch, a violin, tools, and so on. When he was 19, he decided he wanted to attend college. He tried out Yale College and passed the exam. He graduated from Yale about nine years later when he was 28.
After College he needed money fast. He found a tutoring job in South Carolina, but he did not want to go to the South, for he thought that is where his bad luck would start. However, he had no choice.
While traveling to South Carolina, he met a lady named Mrs. Catherine Greene. Mrs. Greene asked him if he would like to visit her largest estate called Mulberry Grove. When he did go to Mrs. Greene's estate found out that his job offer was already taken. At Mulberry Grove, cotton planters were telling each other their problem with cotton. Only green seed cotton, which is very hard to clean, grew in North America. The cotton planters told Whitney that a machine that would clean the seeds out of the cotton would be a miracle. Whitney hopped he could help these farmers and make money at the same time. He started work on his machine immediately. Within a week, he came up with a tiny working model of the Cotton Gin. The Mulberry Manager soon offered Whitney money for the rights of his invention. Soon many states paid him $50,000 for the right to use his invention. Whitney sent a cotton gin to England, but some of the Southern planters started spreading a rumor that the cotton gin ruined the cotton; many British spinners believed the rumor so they wouldn't buy the gin.
Whitney's cotton gin had a great affect on the southern economy. As they bought the gin they became more dependent upon slaves. The South was also becoming richer than before.
After Whitney had his cotton gin business in hand he decided he wanted to help the federal government. During the Revolutionary War the United States got its entire musket supply from France. And since there was a positional threat of war with France the U.S. needed to produce muskets. That is when Whitney became the father of mass production. He invented a machine that could make muskets with interchangeable parts.
Eli Whitney died on January 8th, 1825. He left behind his four young children. His three nephews continued his work. One of his nephews invented the rock crusher.
Eli Whitney was very successful in life. He invented many machines; cotton gin and the musket machine. He had a great impact on the U.S.; he help supply the war with 10,000 muskets and improved the cotton business.
Resources:
www.archivees.gov/education/lessons/cotton-gin-patent/
www.kidsnewsroom.org/elmer/infocentral/farmest/invetors/whitney/indey.html
What 2 things did Eli Whitney invent?
He invented the cotton gin. He may have invented a type of milling machine, but it is hard to say who invented the first one, since several were creating them during that time. Ironically, he didn't make much money off of the cotton gin. There were so many patent violations that his money was all tied up in litigation.
He also popularized the notion of interchangable parts, and he manufactured firearms.
He went to Yale for college. He started their when he was 19 and ended whin he was 28.
In Yale he was working on how to invent more things and come up with something that will help the soldeirs He was very smart when he was 19 he was 11 when he was was construcking more thing. Yale helped him relized what partd and what tools he really needed and then he came out with the cotton gin,..............................:)
How did Eli Whitney influence the growth of slavery?
Well, what basically happened was even though he invented the cotton gin*, the part that wasn't taken care of was harvesting the cotton in the first place. After this invention, people saw this as a great opportunity to make money, so everybody started buying land. HOWEVER, they needed lots of people to harvest the cotton in all that land, so they bought slaves. Summing it up, they could get the small pieces out of the cotton, but they needed people to go get the cotton for them, so they bought slaves. *The cotton gin was an invention that took the smaller and unnecessary pieces, like seeds, out of the cotton. Before the cotton gin, it had taken a lot of work to do that.
