Whitney's father also had a son named John III with his first wife Elsie Hamilton. Gary also shared that although his family was “tight-knit” back then, “There were always a lot of secrets ...
click image for close-up In October of 1793, Eli Whitney sent a drawing of his new invention, the cotton gin, to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson in application for a patent. Jefferson replied ...
Engineer Eli Whitney died 35 years before the Civil War, but his most famous invention, the cotton gin, set the economic stage for war. Whitney's gin made cotton production far more efficient ...
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