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Éli Whitney — Wikipédia
Éli Whitney ( 8 décembre 1765 – 8 janvier 1825 ) est un mécanicien et industriel américain, inventeur de diverses machines. Il pressent dès 1798 la tendance croissante à la production en série et fut l'un des précurseurs de l'organisation rationnelle du travail.
Eli Whitney - Inventor - Biography
27 Apr 2017 ... On Biography.com, read the story of Eli Whitney, the interchangeable-parts pioneer and cotton-gin inventor whose idea was widely pirated.
Eli Whitney (U.S. National Park Service)
Inventor, mechanical engineer and manufacturing pioneer, Eli Whitney is best known as the inventor of the cotton gin, patented in 1794. An unforeseen byproduct of Whitney's invention, a labor-saving device, was to help preserve the institution of slavery in the South by making cotton production highly profitable. Exports of ...
Eli Whitney - Wikipedia
Eli Whitney (December 8, 1765 – January 8, 1825) was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South. Whitney's invention made upland short cotton into a profitable crop, which strengthened the ...
Eli Whitney in Georgia | New Georgia Encyclopedia
9 Sep 2014 ... Eli Whitney, a Massachusetts native, only spent a few months living in Georgia, but during that time, in 1793, he invented the cotton gin. Whitney's machine expedited the extraction of seeds from.
Eli Whitney | American inventor and manufacturer | Britannica.com
Eli Whitney, (born December 8, 1765, Westboro, Massachusetts [U.S.]—died January 8, 1825, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.), American inventor, mechanical engineer, and manufacturer, best remembered as the inventor of the cotton gin but most important for developing the concept of mass production of interchangeable ...