4 Quotes & Sayings By Eli Whitney

Eli Whitney, born in Westboro, Massachusetts, was an American inventor and industrialist. He invented the cotton gin which made short-staple cotton profitable for cultivation in the Deep South. He was a founder of the cotton textile industry. He was also a founder of the first successful American bank.

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I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected. Eli Whitney
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One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion. Eli Whitney
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I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back. Eli Whitney