Maker of Machines
Subtitle: A Story About Eli Whitney (Creative Minds Biography)
Contributors: Jan Naimo Jones (Illustrator)
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
Published: August 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781575056340
Subjects: History; Mass production; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Biography; Biography & Autobiography; Technology - Inventions & Discoveries; Juvenile literature; Biography/Autobiography; Inventors; Historical - General; Biography & Autobiography - Science & Technology; Biography; Muzzle-loading firearms; United States; 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.