Eli Whitney
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Person
- Born
- 1765-12-08
- Died
- 1825-01-08
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,328x
- A Simple, Positive Semi-Definite, Heteroskedasticity and Autocorrelation Consistent Covariance Matrix
· 1987 · cited 14,954x
- Inhibited Spontaneous Emission in Solid-State Physics and Electronics
· 1987 · cited 12,392x
- The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Features as a Perceptual Metric
· 2018 · cited 11,644x
- On a Test of Whether one of Two Random Variables is Stochastically Larger than the Other
· 1947 · cited 10,844x
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Key facts
- Born
- Eli Whitney Jr. , December 8, 1765 ( 1765-12-08 ) , Westborough , Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America
- Died
- January 8, 1825 (1825-01-08) (aged 59), New Haven, Connecticut , U.S.
- Education
- Yale College
- Spouse
- Henrietta Frances Edwards ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1817 )
- Relatives
- Whitney family
- Projects
- Interchangeable parts cotton gin
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Key dates
- Born
- 8 December 1765
- Died
- 8 January 1825
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Eli
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Westborough
- Place of death
- New Haven
- Occupation
- mechanic
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Eli Whitney by Samuel Finley Breese Morse 1822.jpeg
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Eli Whitney Jr. (December 8, 1765 – January 8, 1825) was an American inventor, widely known for inventing the cotton gin in 1793, one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution that shaped the economy of the Antebellum South. Whitney's invention made upland short cotton into a profitable crop, which strengthened the economic foundation of slavery in the United States and prolonged the institution. Despite the social and economic impact of his invention, Whitney lost much of his profits in legal battles over patent infringement for the cotton gin. Thereafter, he turned his attention to securing contracts with the government in the manufacture of muskets for the newly formed United States Army. He continued making arms and inventing until his death in 1825.
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