Eli Whitney

The third best known American inventor of the pre-atomic age, after Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, is probably Eli Whitney.
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Biography of Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin
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Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin on March 14 1794.
www.inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/cotton_gin.htm

Eli Whitney (December 8, 1765 - January 8, 1825) was an American inventor and manufacturer who is credited with creating the first cotton gin in 1793.
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