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Westboro Mass is his birthplace but he saw cotton being cleaned of seeds by hand in the deep south of USA and got the inspiration for his invention there.He patented it in 1793 as a 'cotton engine' but this was later shortened to 'gin. He also had a cotton mill in Hamden Connecticut before going into the arms industry making rifles with interchangeable parts in New Haven

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