Eli Whitney
Subtitle: the cotton gin and American manufacturing
By: Regan A. Huff.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The library of American lives and times
Publisher: PowerPlus Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Whitney, Eli, 1765-1825.; Inventors -- United States -- Biography.; Cotton gins and ginning.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 106) and index.
Table of contents: title: Enterprising youth; title: College man; title: Going south; title: Conquering cotton; title: Important invention, failed business; title: Too successful an invention; title: Guns and government contracts; title: Making guns without gunsmiths; title: The idea of interchangeable parts; title: Whitney's legacy.