WHITNEY, ELI

WHITNEY, ELI
   an American inventor, born in Massachusetts; invented the cotton-gin, a machine for cleaning seed-cotton, and became a manufacturer of firearms, by which he realised a large fortune (1765-1825).

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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