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Eli Whitney

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Noun1.Eli WhitneyEli Whitney - United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825)


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This outstanding series of 23 minute DVDs begins with "A History of Invention" and "Inventing in Today's World", and then continues with the stories of Alexander Graham Bell, George Washington Carver, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Benjamin Franklin, Louis Pasteur, James Watt, Eli Whitney, and the Wright Brothers.
First, in 1793, the enterprising Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin.
ELI WHITNEY VOC TECH Hamden, CT Presented by Janice R McMorran
 
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