Eli Whitney was born December 8, 1765 in Westboro, Massachusetts. As a child he was very expressive with his talent for inventing. Whitney was able to create machines that would mimic a job done by hand. During his youth, Whitney was a blacksmith. At one time he was the only producer of lady’s hat pins.

Attaining a degree during his time was usually for those that were studying law or theology. Whitney, against the wishes of his parents, was determined to get a degree from Yale University. He entered Yale at the age of twenty-three. To pay his way through school he taught classes at Yale. After graduating at the age of twenty-eight he remained a teacher at Yale. Whitney, realizing that no career existed for the profession that he wanted, excepted a position as a tutor in South Carolina.

On the trip to South Carolina Whitney met the widow of Nathaniel

Whitney created interchangeable parts, making the North the leader in the Industrial age. The Cotton Gin may not have given him fame and fortune, but it did give the South a more richer economy. Whitney changed the face of the American production in both the North and the South. Eli Whitney was honored for his accomplishments by being abducted into the inventor Hall of Fame in 1974. Whitney was an inventor, pioneer, mechanical engineer, and manufacturer. He was one of the greatest minds of his time.

Eli Whitney agreed to observe the process and try to make a machine to make cotton cleaning easier and cheaper. Whitney watched how cotton was cleaned. He observed that one hand held the seed while the other hand sorted the strands of lint. He created a machine that would duplicate this process.

Greene. After arriving in South Carolina he found that the wage he was guaranteed was going to be cut in half. Whitney refused the position. With no job he accepted an offer from Mrs. Greene to be an assistant to the plantation manager and to read law. Slavery was becoming less popular in the South. Hard times were becoming very common. Farmers did not rotate crops because land was so cheap. They had to move farther west each time. The farther west they went the harder is was to grow cotton. The plantation owners were forced to grow a green seed variety of cotton. This was virtually useless because it took so much to clean the cotton. Mrs. Greene suggested that Eli Whitney invent something to aid in the cleaning of cotton.

Eli Whitney knew that there were only a handful of skilled machinists in America. Whitney wanted to invent something that wou

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