ELI WHITNEY BIRTH Dec 8, 1765 Westborough, MA DEATH Jan 8, 1825 New Haven, CT MARRIAGE Jan 6, 1817 Henrietta Edwards OCCUPATION Inventor NATIONALITY United States Eli Whitney was one of the most influential industrialists and one of the greatest pioneers of the Industrial Revolution in early American history. He lived in the south for only a few years, yet, during this time, he created an invention that would revolutionize the agricultural industry. The creation of the cotton gin, an machine …showed first 75 words of 1688 total…

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