Eli Whitney

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village, producing goods, and populated by well educated,
happy workers,Whitneyville. He also affected the industrial development of
the United States , in manufacturing muskets but most of whitney's own
guns parts do not in fact interchange. Nevertheless, Eli Whitney is a
figure whose history is fascinating, and whose impact in New Haven can not
be overstated. He translated the concept of interchangeable parts into a
manufacturing system, giving birth to the Americanmass-production concept.
Whitney saw that a machine to clean the seed from cotton could make the
South prosperous and make its inventor rich. He set to work at once and
within days had drawn a sketch to explain his idea; 10 days later he
constructed a crude model that separated fiber from seed. By 1793 he
designed and constructed a machine called the cotton gin, that quickly
separated cotton seed from the shortstaple cotton fiber. The first cotton
gin was a wooden box that spun around a drum and picked the ...

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