[DOC] [TLE] Interchangeable Parts - Inventions - HISTORY.com [PAR] Find out more about the history of Interchangeable Parts, including videos, 
interesting ... parts, popularized in America when Eli Whitney used them to 
assemble muskets in ... at the tender age of 27 with his invention of the cotton gin, 
patented in 1794. ... In mid-1798, he obtained a government contract to 
manufacture 10,000... [DOC] [TLE] Eli Whitney - Wikipedia [PAR] 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 ... The 
cotton gin was a wooden drum stuck with hooks that pulled the cotton... [DOC] [TLE] Early Industrialization - Digital History [PAR] In 1798, Whitney persuaded the U.S. government to award him a contract for 
10,000 ... He disassembled ten muskets and put ten new muskets together out of 
the ... As early as 1800 manufacturers of wooden clocks began to use 
interchangeable parts. ... Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin in 1793--which 
permitted an... [DOC] [TLE] Eli Whitney - Inventor - Biography.com [PAR] Jul 8, 2014 ... Eli Whitney was an American inventor who created the cotton gin and pushed ... 
He later went on to pioneer interchangeable parts systems of production. ... In 
1789, Whitney started to attend Yale College and graduated in 1792, with some 
... period of time, and the government accepted his bid in 1798. [DOC] [TLE] The Factory | The Eli Whitney Museum and Workshop [PAR] In 1798 Eli Whitney built a firearms factory near New Haven. ... Whitney's work in 
making muskets from a number of interchangeable parts once identified ... Almost 
every feature of the American system of manufacturing began in Europe .... Here 
Whitney invented the cotton gin that separated seeds from short-staple cotton. [DOC] [TLE] Eli Whitney's Patent for the Cotton Gin | National Archives [PAR] Sep 23, 2016 ... Background Eli Whitney and the Need for an Invention As Eli ... Whitney knew 
that if he could invent such a machine, he could apply to the federal government 
for a patent. ... Instead planters began making their own versions of Whitney's gin 
... muskets by machine so that the parts were interchangeable. [DOC] [TLE] Eli Whitney - New World Encyclopedia [PAR] Eli Whitney is famous for patenting the invention of the cotton gin but he made no 
... The new American government, realizing the need to prepare for war, began to 
... In January 1798, the federal governmentfearing war with Franceawarded 
... slavery by making it more profitable, and his system of interchangeable parts... [DOC] [TLE] The origin of interchangeable parts - ScienceDirect [PAR] F. I. Although the system is inseparably associated with this country, and is called 
... At least two early attempts to manufacture muskets from interchangeable parts 
... who had already invented the cotton gin, which was to have such a profound ... 
a letter he wrote to the Secretary of the Treasury in 1798 soliciting the contract. [DOC] [TLE] Eli Whitney facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ... [PAR] Get information, facts, and pictures about Eli Whitney at Encyclopedia.com. Make 
... Cotton gins of various designs were then in use in different parts of the world, 
and ... He signed his first contract with the Federal government on June 14, 1798, 
and ... The Swedish inventor Christopher Polhem had used such a system in the
... [DOC] [TLE] Mass Moments: Eli Whitney Patents the Cotton Gin [PAR] ...in 1794, Westborough native Eli Whitney applied for a patent on the cotton gin. 
... he invented a machine that made growing cotton so profitable that the South ... 
and developed what became known as the "American System" of manufacture. 
He designed machines that turned out standardized, interchangeable parts. [DOC] [TLE] What's a Cotton "Gin?" - wesclark.com [PAR] Next to the explorers, inventors are a dull lot and have inspired fewer myths. ... (In 
1798 Whitney was given a lucrative federal contract to supply arms ... system of 
interchangeable

Question: In 1798 this cotton gin inventor began using a system of interchangeable parts to make muskets for the U.S. government
Answer: Eli Whitney