Eli Whitney
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Eli Whitney was born in Westboro, Mass., on Dec. 8, 1765. As a boy, he loved to play with little mechanisms and took to them as an artist does to paint. As a young man he was a blacksmith, and then started college at the age of 23. He graduated from Yale College in 1792, after which he decided to act more intensely on his inventions.
The accomplishments that Eli Whitney is best known for are his invention of the first cotton gin in the year 1793. He also manufactured muskets for the U.S. Government...