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Profile of Eli Whitney – Inventor of the Cotton Gin

[as reprinted from Cassier’s magazine v. 17 Nov. 1899-Apr. 1900] As the founder of the modern system of interchangeable manufacture of machinery parts which, at the present time, has a special significance in the competition for the world’ s market for engineering workshop products, Eli Whitney will always figure prominently in engineering history, though he…

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