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Categories: All articles needing additional references, Inventors from Massachusetts, 18th-century American inventors, Machine tool builders, American people of English descent
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Whitney  Eli Whitney  E. Whitney  Eli Whitney, Jr.  Eli Whitney II
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United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825) WordNet 3.0
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United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Eli Whitney Jr. was an American inventor, widely known for inventing the cotton gin, one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South. Wikipedia
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IS A
inventor
manufacturer
homo
ARCHIVES AT
New Haven Museum and Historical Society
AWARD RECEIVED
National Inventors Hall of Fame
CAUSE OF DEATH
prostate cancer
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
United States
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
EDUCATED AT
Yale College
FAMILY NAME
Whitney
FATHER
Eli Whitney Blake, Jr.
GIVEN NAME
Eli
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
MANNER OF DEATH
suicide
natural causes
MEMBER OF
Phi Beta Kappa
OCCUPATION
engineer
tax collector
politician
entrepreneur
PLACE OF BIRTH
Westborough
PLACE OF BURIAL
Grove Street Cemetery
PLACE OF DEATH
New Haven
SEX OR GENDER
male
SPONSOR
Catharine Littlefield Greene
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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Whitney, Eli Whitney
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Eli Whitney
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Eli Whitney
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E. Whitney, Eli whitney, Eli Whitney, Jr., Eli Whitney II, Eli Witney, Ely Whitney, Whitney musket
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Eli Whitney Jr.

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