Whitney, Eli

His father was a great man, a natural philosopher, and almost an Eli Whitney in mechanical ingenuity.

Not until the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney in 1794 did the cotton begin to reach its present importance.

Eli Whitney's timely invention of the cotton-gin in 1793 hastened the general introduction of the new manufacturing machinery.

This was the American cotton gin, for the removal of the seeds from the fibre of the boll, invented by Eli Whitney in 1792.

Eli Whitney, a Connecticut school-teacher twenty-seven years of age, had gone to Georgia in 1792 to act as a private tutor.