Eli Whitney, Inventor - Whitney's Cotton Gin

  
 Price: $9.95

Stock #:557639
Type: First Day Cover
Postmark: 1940 Oct-7
Postmark City: Savannah
Postmark State: GA
Stamp: 1c
Size: 3.75" x 6.5" (10 x 16.5 cm)

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Born Dec. 8, 1763 at Westboro, Mass.-Graduated from Yale in 1792 – In Georgia as a teacher, he tried to use a machine to do the tedious work of separating cotton fiber from the seeds- the cotton gin resulted, performing the work of 100 men- Later, on a small arms contract, he originated mass production of parts for later assembly…He died Jan 8, 1825.

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