Eli Whitney
Inventor (1765–1825)
Eli Whitney was an American inventor who created the cotton gin and pushed the “interchangeable parts” mode of production.
Synopsis
Born on December 8, 1765, in Westboro, Massachusetts, Eli Whitney studied at Yale before going on to invent the cotton gin, a device that highly streamlined the process of extracting fiber from cotton seeds. With the patent for his device being widely pirated, Whitney struggled to earn any recompense for his invention. He later went on to pioneer “interchangeable parts” systems of production.
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