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The other one is copied, but I did mine on Eli Whitney:
Eli Whitney is best known for his famous invention, the cotton gin - which is short for the cotton engine. Whitney was born in Westboro, Massachusetts on December 9, 1765, and died in New Haven, Connecticut, on January 8, 1825, as a result of cancer. Whitney also invented interchangeable parts and is credited for inventing the first milling machine.
Eli Whitney's love for inventing and seeing how things work began in his dad's workshop. He lived on a farm, and he loved working in the workshop. One day, he took apart his father's watch because he wanted to see how everything worked. Whitney then realized that taking the watch apart was probably not a very good idea, because if his father found out, he would most likely get in big trouble. He then put everything back together just how he remembered, and the watch worked perfectly fine! His father never found out about Whitney taking the watch apart.
After high school, Eli Whitney went to Yale College. Subsequent to graduating, he hoped to study law and become a lawyer, but he didn't have enough money, so he applied to be a tutor in Georgia. On his way to Georgia, he met Ms. Green, owner of a major cotton plantation called Mulberry Grove. The two quickly became friends and Whitney was offered a job at Mulberry Grove. He accepted the offer and moved in. Ms. Greene's job at the plantation gave him double the money he would have ever earned from being a tutor.
At Mulberry Grove, Eli Whitney learned a lot about cotton. Long-staple cotton only grew on the coast, and it was very easy and efficient to clean. Short staple cotton grew everywhere (this was the kind of cotton at Mulberry Grove) but the seeds were hard to clean. Back then, the seeds had to be cleaned by hand, which made the process long and hard. Slaves were used for doing this. Whitney wanted to make a machine that made this process easier. That winter, he invented the cotton gin. It had a wired screen with little hooks that, when turned, pulled the cotton through and combed the seeds out, thus cleaning the cotton much quicker. The cotton gin saved a lot of time and money and even bumped up the yearly average for the production of cotton bales from 3,000 to 75,000. Instead of the slaves picking the seeds out, now most of the slaves could be sent to the fields to pick the cotton. This is why slaves became more valuable and needed. After Whitney successfully invented the cotton gin, he got a patent for it. However, the patent was just infringed and everyone copied it, because of the very simple design of the cotton gin. He tried to fight them in court, but he just ended up running out of money. His factory later burnt down, too, so the cotton gin wasn't as successful for him as he thought it would be.
Eli Whitney also invented interchangeable parts. Back then, guns were made entirely by hand, but he found a way to make machines do it. When they were made by hand, they could come out differently; the parts weren't the same size and shape on every single gun, meaning that every gun was different so you couldn't swap out parts, because the parts on the gun were unique and couldn't be replaced. But Whitney's machines made it so the parts came out completely the same shape and size, so they could swap out parts if needed.
Eli Whitney was a born inventor. He liked to figure out how things worked and he liked building things. That's why he invented interchangeable parts and the cotton gin.
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