[DOC] [TLE] Eli Whitney's Patent for the Cotton Gin | National Archives [PAR] Sep 23, 2016 ... Reluctantly, he left his native Massachusetts to assume the position of private ... 
were in desperate need of a way to make the growing of cotton profitable. ... such 
a machine, he could apply to the federal government for a patent. ... While it was 
true that the cotton gin reduced the labor of removing seeds,... [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 ... He 
was famous during his lifetime and afterward by the name "Eli Whitney". [DOC] [TLE] Cotton Gin Petition eText - Primary Source - eNotes.com [PAR] Cotton Gin Petition: complete eText. ... Greene, the widow of American 
Revolutionary War (177583; the American colonists' fight ... By April 1793 he 
had made a working model that cleaned fifty pounds of cotton a day. ... Whitney 
sued the people who infringed on his patent in 1797, but he lost the case 
because the judges... [DOC] [TLE] March 14, 1794: Get Your Cotton Pickin' Hands Off My Gin, or The ... [PAR] Mar 14, 2016 ... On March 14, 1794, American inventor Eli Whitney patented his ... Unfortunately 
for Whitney, the cotton gin did not make him rich as he continuously had to fight 
for the ... used the practice in manufacturing muskets for the US government. ... 
Either way, many other arms makers and other industries took the... [DOC] [TLE] Cotton Gin Petition - Encyclopedia.com [PAR] Definition of Cotton Gin Petition  Our online dictionary has Cotton Gin Petition ... 
the American colonists' fight for independence from England) hero General ... By 
April 1793 he had made a working model that cleaned fifty pounds of cotton a 
day. ... Whitney sued the people who infringed on his patent in 1797, but he lost 
the... [DOC] [TLE] Biography: Eli Whitney - Ducksters [PAR] While traveling to Georgia, Whitney met a lady named Mrs. Greene. ... That winter
, Eli invented a machine he called the cotton gin. ... Fighting over Patents ... 
Whitney got a patent for his new invention and made plans to make his ... He 
secured a contract from the government to manufacture muskets. ... US 
Government [DOC] [TLE] Name - gst boces [PAR] Eli Whitney is best known for his invention of the cotton gin, a machine that could 
... the way that goods were made: interchangeable parts and mass production. ... 
of the United States as a great industrial nation during the 19th Century (1800's). 
... By 1799, he had a contract with the Government to produce 10,000 muskets. [DOC] [TLE] Eli Whitney - New World Encyclopedia [PAR] He never patented his later inventions, one of which was a milling machine. ... 
Although he made his fortune in musket production, Whitney's name will be 
forever ... While the cotton gin did not earn Whitney the fortune he had hoped for, 
it did ... The new American government, realizing the need to prepare for war, 
began to... [DOC] [TLE] The Factory | The Eli Whitney Museum and Workshop [PAR] The muskets his workmen made by methods comparable to those of modern 
mass ... Whitney obtained the largest government contract, 10,000 guns due in 
two ... When he signed the contract, Whitney had no factory, no workers and no 
.... Here Whitney invented the cotton gin that separated seeds from short-staple 
cotton. [DOC] [TLE] Changing the World Twice- The Story of Eli Whitney [PAR] Feb 26, 2016 ... When you hear the name Eli Whitney, you probably think of his invention, ... But 
when he arrived there he discovered that the job paid half of what .... The cotton 
gin had made it happenand made the Civil War inevitable. .... On June 14, 
1798, Whitney signed a contract with the U.S. government to deliver... [DOC]

Question: While fighting for his patent for the cotton gin, he made arms for the U.S. government
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