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Eli Whitney

Cotton Gin

• We’re sure you can find this American inventor, pioneer, mechanical engineer, and manufacturer in your history books!

• Eli Whitney is best remembered as the inventor of the cotton gin. He also had a huge impact on the industrial development of the United States when, he came up with the idea of interchangeable which gave birth to the American mass-production concept.