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Eli Whitney

Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney, American engineer, invented the cotton gin (d. 1825)

Eli Whitney Jr. was an American inventor, widely known for inventing the cotton gin in 1793, one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution that shaped the economy of the Antebellum South.

8 December 1765

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