Eli Whitney

Eli Whitney (8 Disember 1765 – 8 Januari 1825) ialah seorang guru di Amerika Syarikat. Kemudian, beliau sangat berminat untuk mencipta jentera yang dapat membantu para petani. Hasil daripada kajiannya, beliau telah berjaya mencipta jentera yang dapat memisahkan kapas daripada bijinya. Ciptaan beliau telah meningkatkan ekspot kapas Amerika Syarikat.

Rujukan

Bahan bacaan

Battison, Edwin. (1960). "Eli Whitney and the Milling Machine." Smithsonian Journal of History I.
Cooper, Carolyn, & Lindsay, Merrill K. (1980). Eli Whitney and the Whitney Armory.
Whitneyville, CT: Eli Whitney Museum.
Dexter, Franklin B. (1911). "Eli Whitney." Yale Biographies and Annals, 1792-1805. New York, NY: Henry Holt & Company.
Hall, Karyl Lee Kibler, & Cooper, Carolyn. (1984). Windows on the Works: Industry on the Eli Whitney Site, 1798-1979.
Hamden, CT: Eli Whitney Museum

Lakwete, Angela. (2004). Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Smith, Merritt Roe. 1973. "John H. Hall, Simeon North, and the Milling Machine: The Nature of Innovation among Antebellum Arms Makers." Technology & Culture 14.
Woodbury, Robert S. (1960). "The Legend of Eli Whitney and Interchangeable Parts." Technology & Culture 1.

Pautan luar
The Eli Whitney Museum
Eli Whitney Biography on at Whitney Research Group 
Inventor of the Week: Eli Whitney (MIT)
Entry in New Georgia Encyclopedia

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