While fighting for his patent for the cotton gin, he made arms for the U.S. government
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Cotton Gin Petition eText - Primary Source - eNotes.com  Cotton Gin Petition: complete eText. ... Greene, the widow of American Revolutionary War (177583; the American colonists' fight ... By April 1793 he had made a working model that cleaned fifty pounds of cotton a day. ... Whitney sued the people who infringed on his patent in 1797, but he lost the case because the judges...
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March 14, 1794: Get Your Cotton Pickin' Hands Off My Gin, or The ...  Mar 14, 2016 ... On March 14, 1794, American inventor Eli Whitney patented his ... Unfortunately for Whitney, the cotton gin did not make him rich as he continuously had to fight for the ... used the practice in manufacturing muskets for the US government. ... Either way, many other arms makers and other industries took the...
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Eli Whitney's Patent for the Cotton Gin | National Archives  Sep 23, 2016 ... Reluctantly, he left his native Massachusetts to assume the position of private ... were in desperate need of a way to make the growing of cotton profitable. ... such a machine, he could apply to the federal government for a patent. ... While it was true that the cotton gin reduced the labor of removing seeds,...
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Cotton Gin Petition - Encyclopedia.com  Definition of Cotton Gin Petition  Our online dictionary has Cotton Gin Petition ... the American colonists' fight for independence from England) hero General ... By April 1793 he had made a working model that cleaned fifty pounds of cotton a day. ... Whitney sued the people who infringed on his patent in 1797, but he lost the...
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Eli Whitney - Wikipedia  Eli Whitney (December 8, 1765  January 8, 1825) was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South. Whitney's invention made upland short cotton into a profitable crop, which ... He was famous during his lifetime and afterward by the name "Eli Whitney".
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Samuel Colt - Wikipedia  Samuel Colt (July 19, 1814  January 10, 1862) was an American inventor and industrialist .... Colt hired a gunsmith by the name of John Pearson to build his revolver. ... In 1835, Samuel Colt traveled to the United Kingdom, following in the ...... from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Samuel_Colt&oldid=740535221".
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A History of the United States Steel Industry - Rodney Ohebsion  At the time when William Kelly began to make iron, he was thirty-six years olda .... The patent office was convinced and granted him United States Patent No. ... brother William as a child in financial matters, and refused to give him his patent. ... Bessemer, by his own efforts, did not get any better  steel  in 1855 than Kelly...
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Samuel Colt - Wikipedia  But his business expanded rapidly after 1847, when the Texas Rangers ordered 1,000 revolvers during the American war with Mexico. During the American Civil...
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Cotton gin - Wikipedia  Seeds may be used to grow more cotton or to produce cottonseed oil. Although simple handheld roller gins have been used in India and other countries since at oldest 500 AD, the first modern mechanical cotton gin was created by American inventors inventor Eli Whitney in 1793 and patented in 1794.
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Interchangeable Parts - Inventions - HISTORY.com  Find out more about the history of Interchangeable Parts, including videos, interesting ... parts, popularized in America when Eli Whitney used them to assemble muskets in ... at the tender age of 27 with his invention of the cotton gin, patented in 1794. ... In mid-1798, he obtained a government contract to manufacture 10,000...
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Samuel Colt - Inventions - HISTORY.com  Find out more about the history of Samuel Colt, including videos, interesting articles ... the start of the U.S. Civil War (1861-65) he had made the Colt revolver perhaps the ... at sea, Colt carved a six-barrel cylinder, locking pin and hammer out of wood. ... Colt's Patent Arms Manufacturing Company began making the Paterson...
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Paul Revere - The History Reader - A History Blog from St. Martins ...  Apr 29, 2016 ... He cradles his chin in his right hand, while his left holds a round teapot whose ... that circulated widely and that proved as effective as written words. ... Paul Revere's skills in copper and silver owed much to his father's influence. ... as he joined the Sons of Liberty in its protest against the Stamp Act. Again...
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Arms Production | The Eli Whitney Museum and Workshop  As Eli Whitney wrote after completing his 1798 contract to produce 10,000 ... arms factories like Whitney's, even if they had originated in the latter places. .... other gunstocking machines that Thomas Blanchard had invented and were in use at .... In late 1846 Samuel Colt asked Eli Whitney, Jr. if he could make 1000 revolvers...
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Chapter 8 Section 3.pdf  Sep 8, 2015 ... In addition, the American economy had come to depend on ... David Christy, Cotton Is King, 1855. In 1820, the ... American exports. ... fewer produced half of the cotton crop. ... Not all southern states changed over to cotton, however. .... Later accounts said that he had intended to raid the arsenal, kill all the...
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Cotton Gin and Eli Whitney - Inventions - HISTORY.com  In 1794, U.S.-born inventor Eli Whitney (1765-1825) patented the cotton gin, a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the...
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Eli Whitney in Georgia | New Georgia Encyclopedia  Sep 9, 2014 ... Eli Whitney, a Massachusetts native, only spent a few months living in Georgia, but during that time, in 1793, he invented the cotton gin.
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Why Did President Polk Want War with Mexico? | Teachinghistory.org  In a diary entry recorded later in 1845, Polk, a Jacksonian Democrat, identified ... for American expansion," others have posited that many Americans imbued with the ... Concurrently, the administration-controlled newspaper, the Washington ... John H. Schroeder, Mr. Polk's War: American Opposition and Dissent, 1846-1848...
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Samuel Colt - Inventions - HISTORY.com  Colt founded a company to manufacture his revolving-cylinder pistol; however, sales were ... Then in 1846, with the Mexican War (1846-48) under way, the U.S. ... of war, but the Army judged the use of a percussion cap in Colt firearms too innovative ... gun, General Zachary Taylor (1784-1850) ordered 1,000 Colt revolvers.
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Thomas Jefferson to Eli Whitney, Jr., 16 November 1793  ... Jr. regarding his patent application for the cotton gin, 16 November 1793 ... replied on November 16 that he received Whitney's drawing of the cotton gin and that ... Standard 3-4: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the events...
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Agriculture in Georgia: Overview | New Georgia Encyclopedia  ... role in Georgia's economy for more than two and a half centuries, beginning ... The invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney in 1793 while he was visiting a friend near Savannah revolutionized the cotton industry. By 1860 there were 68,000 farms in the state, and they produced...
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Eli Whitney - Inventor - Biography.com  Jul 8, 2014 ... Eli Whitney was an American inventor who created the cotton gin and pushed ... He later went on to pioneer interchangeable parts systems of production. ... In 1789, Whitney started to attend Yale College and graduated in 1792, with some ... period of time, and the government accepted his bid in 1798.