Maker of Machines
Subtitle: A Story About Eli Whitney (Creative Minds Biographies)
Contributors: Jan Naimo Jones (Illustrator)
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
Published: February 2004
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
ISBN-13: 9781575056036
Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction; Muzzle-loading firearms; History; Biography & Autobiography - Science & Technology; United States; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Biography; Mass production; Children: Grades 4-6; Juvenile literature; Inventors; Technology - Inventions & Discoveries; Biography; Whitney, Eli,; 1765-1825
First sentence: In the springtime of 1776, a boy named Eli Whitney and a Connecticut Colony lawyer named Silas Deane both had big ideas.