Looks at the life and accomplishments of Eli Whitney, the eighteenth-century inventor who revolutionized cotton production in the South with his creation of the cotton gin, and who later designed machines for the mass production of muskets.
year: 2004
call number/section: 920, 92
subjects: whitney, eli, 1765-1825, juvenile literature, inventors, united states, juvenile literature, mass production, history, muzzle-loading firearms, biography