Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin

The Industrial Revolution is mostly remembered for its replacement of manual labor with the textile industry. Machineries were one of the most important aspects of the Industrial Revolution ((Encarta Online Encyclopedia). During the Industrial Revolution there were many inventions. The cotton gin was probably one of the most important of them all.
Eli Whitney was born in Westborough, Massachusetts on December 08, 1765 (Encarta Encyclopedia). As a small boy growing up in Massachusetts, Whitney's mechanical skills never went un-noticed. Whitney made his first violin when he was 12 and established his own nail-making business by the time he was a teenager (Hurt, R. Douglas 297).
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