Author: Constance McLaughlin Green
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780758196422
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 215

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Author: Barbara Mitchell
Publisher: Millbrook Press
ISBN: 1575057794
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Eli Whitney’s love of inventing and pondering new ideas made him one of America’s greatest inventors. Best known for inventing the cotton gin, one of the most important American inventions of the century, he changed cotton production forever. A few years later, Whitney invented machines to make muskets that were identical. The first mass-manufacturing business in the country, his musket factory revolutionized the way Americans made things.

Author: Frank Puterbaugh Bachman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Inventions
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Nine remarkable men produced inventions that changed the world. The printing press, the telephone, powered flight, recording and others have made the modern world what it is. But who were the men who had these ideas and made reality of them? As David Angus shows, they were very different quiet, boisterous, confident, withdrawn but all had a moment of vision allied to single-minded determination to battle through numerous prototypes and produced something that really worked. It is a fascinating account for younger listeners.

Author: Karen Bush Gibson
Publisher: Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1612288103
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Eli Whitney was an inventor best known for his invention of the cotton gin. But it was his ideas and methods that had the greatest impact on America, bringing the country into the Industrial Revolution. He grew up as a farmer's son, but was often found in his father's workshop. As a boy during the American Revolution, he started his first business as a supplier of nails. Against his family's wishes, he insisted on getting an education from Yale. It was while he was studying to be a lawyer that he stumbled upon a solution to clean cotton. Whitney most enjoyed looking at a problem and trying to solve it, whether it was how to clean cotton or lock a desk. He created solutions with easily understood steps. With these steps, he developed a system of manufacturing that worked well with anything that had pieces to be put together. It would be used to mass-produce guns, sewing machines, and, later, cars. Today's manufacturing can be traced to Eli Whitney.

Author: Judy Alter
Publisher: Franklin Watts
ISBN: 9780531108758
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 63

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A biography of the inventor of the cotton gin, whose application of standardized parts to the production of weapons and other machines was a major influence in the development of industry.

Author: United States. National Archives and Records Administration
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Guide for social studies teachers in using primary sources, particularly those available from the National Archives, to teach history.

Author: Frank P. Bachman
Publisher: Christian Liberty Press
ISBN: 9781932971200
Category : Inventions
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Great inventions, historical biographies, strong morals, and the godly character traits necessary for success are highlighted in this collection of stories. From the steam engine and the printing press to television and computers, a wide range of inventions is covered in short chapters that include reading comprehension questions. For older elementary students. 354 pages, softcover from Christian Liberty Press.

Author: Catherine A. Welch
Publisher: LernerClassroom
ISBN: 0822585448
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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True or false? Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, a machine for removing seeds from cotton. False! Eli Whitney was the first person to build a wire-toothed cotton gin. But Eli's gin was not the first machine of its kind. He made nails to earn money when he was a boy. He went to court to protect his wire-toothed cotton gin when others tried to build similar machines. He started his own musket-making business.

Author: Nancy Robinson Masters
Publisher: Children's Press(CT)
ISBN: 9780531124062
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Explains the importance of cotton and the mechanics of the cotton gin, patented by Eli Whitney in 1794, and describes how this invention enabled the expansion of the American slave trade.

Author: Jean Lee Latham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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A biography of Eli Whitney tracing his long legal journey to win rights over his pirated cotton gin and to fulfill his Government contract for ten thousand muskets with interchangable parts.