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= You did not follow my directions- you filled in my list of requirements as if it were an outline instead of making it your own story. 85/100 = = = = = =8th Grade Project=

Childhood- As a child, Whitney showed a wisdom in everything he did. He spent most of his days playing in his fathers furniture repairal shop. He was a very smart, hands-on kid. His parents had no idea they were raising a famous American Invetor. When he was a teen, he made nails in a workshop during the Revolutioary War, but after the war was over, the British came over and sold cheap nails. Eli's business was done. People much rathered to by cheap British nails than pricy American nails. But then, Eli made hatpins and men's walking sticks. When he was 19, he wanted to go to college. When he was a kid, he didn't get that good of an education though.

Date of Birth- Dec. 8th, 1765, Westborough, Massachusettes

Parents-Eli's parents were Eli and Elizabeth Whitney. Eli's mother died in 1777. Later, Eli's father remaried to Judith Whitney. Eli did not really like his stepmother and they often fought. Originally, Judith did not support the idea of Eli going to Yale. She thought he should stay home and help at the farm. All of Eli's life he didn't want to be a farm boy. But after Judith's expensive watch she obtained from her long dead grandmother broke, Eli went to work at it secretly. Judith found her watch completely fixed and as good as new. She thanked Eli and begin to have more faith in Eli. Eventually she too agreed to let Eli go to Yale University.

Siblings-Eli had one sister, Anna, and two brothers, Javier and Enwardo. There is not much information on Eli's siblings.

Experiences-His experiences as a boy were very dramatic. He saw war when he was only a young boy and had to deal with the ups and downs of warfare. After the war he started going to school, which he was very smart, but did not get that good of an education. He was looking forward to go to Yale University. Without that good of an education, it didn't look too good for Eli. He eventually got to know a proffesor from Yale and befriended him. This proffesor saw how skilled Eli was and talked to Yale about how good of an idea it would be to let Eli in. They agreed and Eli was accepted into Yale Univiersity. After he graduated from Yale, he started his great plans on the soon-to-be cotton gin.

Major Events-After the war, Eli also started a warehouse for manufacturing guns for the U.S. Government. After a while, Eli came up with an idea of mass production. He also created intercahngeable parts, which were parts that would work any way with each other, Identical Parts. This replaced the hassle of having every gun America different. If you needed a part for a gun, you usually had to get a custom part made by a gunsmith. But now with Eli's idea, production will become quick and very cost efficient. More people would be able to work without having highly trained skills. This made business boom. But there was a bad part to this. Every plan and idea Eli got, there were people that were trying to steal Eli's plans. Eventually, somone got a hold of the blueprints for Eli's cotton gin and recreated it. They got all the credit for it and Eli was not recognized. He was only recognized for the original idea until 8 years after his death by a man he went to college with.

Death-Eli Whitney died on January 8, 1825, in New Haven. He died from prostate cancer/tuberculosis, which he got a while before he died. He knew it was coming and got ready. Once he died, he willed all of his factories to his son, Eli Whitney Jr.. Whitney Jr. continued on with his fathers dreams of making parts to everything and anything, more simple to make and use. He took control over were his father left off at his armory. Everything had been like nobody was ever gone. Everything was still in great shape and young Eli prospered greatly.

Sources- [] [] http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/whitney.html his is a picture of Eli's famous invention, the cotton gin. It worked by you putting in cotton and you would crank the handle. Tiny comb-like finrgers to pull all the seeds out of the cotton in less than seven minutes. This took the hours out of picking out the seeds by hand. || ||
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