How Did Eli Whitney Contribute To The Industrial Revolution

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Farming is an exceptionally significant part of the world, the U.S., and especially my little county, Gates County. Eli Whitney was someone who greatly aided the period of the Industrial Revolution and even now, the cotton in our pillows and shirts comes from somewhere, right? From his life before fame to his invention to the effect that it had on the world.
Whitney was born on December 8, 1765 in Westboro, Massachusetts. Growing up, he had a respectable farmer who worked as a justice of the peace member. May of 1789 is when Whitney began furthering his education from high school. He attended one of the oldest colleges that we still have now, Yale. I am not out of middle school yet, so I would not know, but, have you been promised a job before, or two, as it had in Eli’s case, and got left high and dry? After he got out of college, he was promised two teaching jobs. Once he was abandoned on the first …show more content…

Eli Whitney (A.K.A the Father of Mass Production) realized unlike the long staple, black seed cotton, which seeds came out rather easily, that only grew on the coast, the green seed, short staple cotton’s seed were not out to release from the fibers easily. He and the manager of the plantation constructed a prototype model in a secret garage. It had four compartments; (1) a hopper which feeds the cotton into the gin, (2) a revolving cylinder that had hundreds of short wire hooks set to match fine grooves cut in, (3) stationary breastwork with pulled out the seeds while the fibers flow through, (4) and lastly, a cylinder set with bristles that got the cotton off the bristles. He got that patented in 1794, but kept working at new things. Taking over 10 years to complete, he created a machine that can create muskets from a pile of musket parts. This is what deemed him the father of mass

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