Eli Whitney
Inventor
1765-12-08 – 1825-01-08
Eli Whitney was an American inventor and manufacturer best known for the cotton gin and for advancing interchangeable-parts manufacturing methods. His work significantly influenced early U.S. industrial production.
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Quotes by Eli Whitney
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I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.
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I can make just such ones if I had tools, and I could make tools if I had tools to make them with.
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You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.
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