Eli Whitney

NOUN

United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825)

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It was left to the Yankee, Eli Whitney, to invent a machine which would make it profitable for southern farmers to grow short-fibered cotton to supply the busy factories of Europe.