Eli Whitney: Inventor Of The Industrial Revolution

Born on December 8th, 1795, in Westborough, Manchester, the eminent inventor of the industrial revolution, Eli Whitney was raised by farming farther, a talented mechanic and inventor himself, Eli Whitney. His mother, Elizabeth (Fay) Whitney, separated away from his family after a devastating divorce caused by his father having other women. Eli graduated from Yale college in 1792 and parted his way from his father to Georgia for occupation purposes; he accepted an invitation to live on the plantation of Catherine Greene. There, Whitney witnessed the struggles that cotton growers faced trying to make a living. Shortly after learning the issue, Eli had built his first cotton gin which he believed would help the cotton growers and gain him a business

However, Whitney's business had an abrupt, conflicting issue with the hired planters that had resigned and made the product themselves as tax charges were unmanageable. This put the partners out of business by 1797. During this time of misfortune, Miller brought suits to solve the problem against the pirated planters however it took a till 1800 to win one suit which allowed the partners to have patent rights for their business. Due to the lack of money provided for the patent rights Whitney's business struggled to earn recompense for his invention. After the expiry date of the cotton gin's patent rights, Whitney experienced many other encounters with the business industries such as manufacturing muskets in 1798 for government purposes. Whitney's death revealed itself on January 8, 1825, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. caused by prostate

It enabled productivity to increase significantly, more specifically the cotton gin would generate up to fifty pounds of cleaned cotton daily from one pound daily. An important contribution to produce the cotton gin consisted of the closely time-related period of the removal of the native peoples of the southern lands (Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Northern Louisiana.) When this act occurred, the land that was previously occupied by the Native Indians presented availability for white men with money and dreams such as developing or producing more cotton gins. Other acts and features (negatives and positives) of the cotton gin are; it revolutionized cotton production, was profitable for the non-wealthy to become wealthy, it fostered associated expansion of racial slavery throughout the region, shaped the nation’s economy, social and political development, lower status people were forced into slaving these companies or moving to cities to be employed in other, typically dangerous jobs