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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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Why couldn't Eli Whitney get a patent on the cotton gin?
He had one. It took a while to get because the Patent Office thought he might have not made the first saw gin.
Eli Whitney had a hard time defending his patent, though; he intended to gin cotton for people instead of selling gins to them. People figured out cotton gins aren't that hard to make and built their own, and Mr. Whitney went broke suing cotton farmers.
What was the overall impact of Eli Whitney introduction of interchangeable parts?
A wide range of goods could be made more efficiently.
What was the overall impact of Eli Whitney's introduction of interchangeable parts?
A wide range of goods could be made more efficiently
What all was invented in 1876-1920?
A huge number of items were invented between 1876 and 1920. These include the airplane, the electric hearing aid, and the ballpoint pen. Coca Cola and the light bulb were also invented during this time period.
Why was cotton grin a bad invention for the slaves?
The invention of the cotton gin gave the cotton planters a method to clean the cotton of the seeds in a faster way so they could grow more cotton. Because they grew more cotton they needed more slaves. By the time of the civil war the slave population of the south was over 4 million.
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
Why was Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin an important development?
It allowed U.S. farmers to take advantage of the large quantities of cotton they could grow.
What did Whitney and his business partner Miller choose to do with the cotton gin?
They chose to produce as many gins as possible and install them throughout Georgia and the South.
How did the cotton gin affect south?
It made the south's dependence on slave labor even greater. Before the cotton gin, cotton had to be hand-carded, to try to get the seeds out of the cotton bolls. This was a slow, labor-intensive process, and cotton was not a popular crop. After the cotton gin, the bolls could easily be deseeded, and cotton quickly became a staple crop of large scale plantation operators. The cotton grew best in the deep south, which was just being settled. Importation of new slaves was forbidden after 1808, so slaves were purchased in the upper south, where tobacco lands were played out, and sent south ("sold down the river") to toil in the new cotton belt area. Large plantation operators made fortunes selling the new crop to the new mills, which were just being developed, to weave the cotton into cloth. Rich people tend to have disproportionate political power, and since they had made their money using slaves to grow cotton, they naturally tended to defend the system which had made them wealthy.
According to Eli Whitney what problems did southern cotton planters face?
Southern cotton planters faced:
-difficult weather to grow crops
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Are headboards and footboards interchangeable?
The twin and king sizes are interchangeable duo-panels that may be used as either a headboard or footboard.
How did the invention of the cotton gin change the ideas about slavery in the south?
The cotton gin made selling cotton profitable with slave labor.
