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Coat of Arms of Eli Whitney. Whitney was born in Westborough, Massachusetts, on December 8, 1765, the eldest child of Eli Whitney Sr., a prosperous farmer, and his wife Elizabeth Fay, also of Westborough. The younger Eli was famous during his lifetime and after his death by the name "Eli Whitney", though he was technically Eli Whitney Jr.
Eli Whitney Blake Jr. (April 20, 1836 – October 1, 1895) was an American scientist. His father and namesake was an inventor and partner of the Blake Brothers manufacturing firm. The origin of the name Eli Whitney comes from Blake senior's uncle Eli Whitney, who changed the face of the cotton industry with the invention of the cotton gin. [1]
The Whitney family is a prominent American family descended from non-Norman English immigrant John Whitney (1592–1673), who left London in 1635 and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts. The historic family mansion in Watertown, known as The Elms, was built for the Whitneys in 1710. [ 1 ]
Eli Whitney Blake, Sr. (January 27, 1795 – August 18, 1886) was an American inventor, best known for his mortise lock and stone-crushing machine, the latter of which earned him a place into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
Eli Whitney: 1765 – 1825 American inventor and creator of the cotton gin [280] Peter Williams: 1934 – 2015 New Zealand barrister and penal reform advocate (died at the age of 80 after battling prostate cancer for over a decade before his death) [281] Ludwig Wittgenstein: 1889 – 1951 Austrian philosopher [282] Earl Woods: 1933 – 2006
In addition to a family's love, the documentary depicts the many obstacles that impede a humane approach to death, from the bureaucratic legwork to the physical difficulties of end-of-life care.
Ron Ely’s cause of death has been released two months after the Tarzan actor died in September at the age of 86.. The Texan actor who starred as the title character in NBC’s 1960s Tarzan ...
Weeks after his passing on Sept. 29, Ron Ely’s cause of death has been revealed. Per a death certificate obtained by TMZ, Ely, the actor best known for playing the title role in the Tarzan TV ...