Eli whitney biography muskets of the american
Eli whitney biography muskets of the american
Eli whitney biography muskets of the american revolutionary war...
Biography Eli Whitney
When we hear the name of Eli Whitney most of us probably think of only one thing: The Cotton Gin. Yet Whitney was a man of extraordinary ingenuity and diverse talents and can rightly be remembered as the man who sparked America’s very own Industrial Revolution.
He was born the son of a farmer on 8th December 1765 in Westborough, Massachusetts.
In his childhood he displayed considerable technical talents and when the Revolutionary War broke out he set up a forge in his father’s workshop in order to produce nails. This venture proved very successful but the young Eli yearned to go to college and so he worked both as a laborer and teacher in order to finance the studies needed to prepare for his college entry exam.
He entered Yale in 1789 and graduated three years later.
On graduation he planned to study law but he was penniless and so accepted a post as a family tutor in South Carolina. On sailing south to the job he met a wealthy widow, Catherine