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  2. Eli Whitney - Wikipedia

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    The younger Eli was famous during his lifetime and after his death by the name "Eli Whitney", though he was technically Eli Whitney Jr. His son, born in 1820, also named Eli, was known during his lifetime and afterward by the name "Eli Whitney Jr." Whitney's mother, Elizabeth Fay, died in 1777, when he was 11. [2]

  3. List of National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees - Wikipedia

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    Eli Whitney: 1765 Cotton gin [6] 1974 Walter Brattain : 1902 Transistor [7] 1974 William Shockley: 1910 Transistor [8] 1974 John Bardeen * 1908 Transistor [9] 1975 Nikola Tesla: 1856 Induction motor [10] 1975 Orville Wright: 1871 Airplane [11] 1975 Samuel Morse: 1791 Telegraph [12] 1975 Wilbur Wright: 1867 Airplane [13] 1975 William D. Coolidge ...

  4. Eli Whitney Blake - Wikipedia

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    He was the son of Elihu Blake and Elizabeth Fay (née Whitney) Blake. His older brother, also named Elihu Blake, was the father of William Phipps Blake. [1] His sister, Maria Georgianna Blake, was married to Archibald Burgess. [2] He was a nephew of Eli Whitney, the inventor of the cotton gin. His maternal grandparents were Eli Whitney Sr., a ...

  5. List of pioneers in computer science - Wikipedia

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    Invented the World Wide Web and sent the first HTTP communication between client and server. [15] 1995 Blum, Manuel: Contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory and its application to cryptography and program checking [16] 1966 Böhm, Corrado: Theorized of the concept of structured programming. 1847, 1854 Boole, George

  6. The Invention that Built (and almost destroyed) America - AOL

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    This invention -- Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin on March 14, 1794. For the first time, American plantation owners would be able to harvest large amounts of cotton profitably.

  7. Cotton gin - Wikipedia

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    The Indian worm-gear roller gin was invented sometime around the 16th century [5] and has, according to Lakwete, remained virtually unchanged up to the present time. A modern mechanical cotton gin was created by American inventor Eli Whitney in 1793 and patented in 1794.

  8. Technological and industrial history of the United States

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    The cotton gin, invented by Eli Whitney, revolutionized slave-based agriculture in the Southern United States.. The technological and industrial history of the United States describes the emergence of the United States as one of the most technologically advanced nations in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.

  9. Timeline of United States inventions (before 1890) - Wikipedia

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    The history of the carton goes as far back as 1879 when it was invented in a Brooklyn, New York factory. The inventor of the folded carton was Robert Gair. He cast a die-ruled, cut, and scored paperboard into a single impression of a folded carton. By 1896, the National Biscuit Company was the first to use cartons to package crackers. [232]