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A biography of Eli Whitney who invented the cotton gin and other useful machines. His greatest contribution, interchangeable parts for machines, was a major influence in the development of industry.
Author : Wilma Pitchford Hays
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Page : 76 pages
File Size : 40,34 MB
Release : 1959
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A biography of Eli Whitney who invented the cotton gin and other useful machines. His greatest contribution, interchangeable parts for machines, was a major influence in the development of industry.
Author : Wilma Pitchford Hays
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Page : 68 pages
File Size : 42,77 MB
Release : 2011-10-01
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ISBN : 9781258174569
Author : Barbara Mitchell
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 12,58 MB
Release : 2004-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1575057794
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 : Constance McLaughlin Green
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Page : 215 pages
File Size : 33,46 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
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ISBN : 9780758196422
Author : Mrs. Esther Godshaw Clarke
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Page : 488 pages
File Size : 43,57 MB
Release : 1941
Category : Economic history
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Author : Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 47,78 MB
Release : 2015-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1476611130
Throughout history, the use and workmanship of metal has been closely associated with the very notion of civilization. Never was this connection more apparent than during the Metallurgic Age, which coincided with England's Victorian era and the Gilded Age in America. This era, covering essentially the 19th century, saw unprecedented advances as a passion for technology and learning fueled a period of discovery and of practical application of the sciences. This work explores in depth the connection between Victorian creativity and the advance of engineering. It examines this age of accelerated invention and the evolution of new fields such as metallurgy, automotive engineering, aerodynamics and industrial arts. Numerous unsung inventors--many of whom lost one or more of the frequent patent battles that peppered the era--are remembered here along with the concept of the meta-invention. The result is a revealing look at how metallurgy permeated all areas of Victorian life and affected changes from the kitchen to the battlefield.
Author : Karen Bush Gibson
Publisher : Mitchell Lane
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 35,40 MB
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1545749884
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 : Constance McLaughlin Green
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Page : 215 pages
File Size : 40,12 MB
Release : 1956
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Author : Frank Puterbaugh Bachman
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Page : 284 pages
File Size : 28,71 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Inventions
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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 : Constance McLaughlin Green
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 39,13 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780673393388
A biography of the man who invented the cotton gin and became one of the founding fathers of American technology.