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Eli Whitney

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Personal details and public facts.

Profession
Entrepreneur
Died
Jan 8, 1825
Zodiac
Sagittarius
Born in
MA
About
Inventor of the cotton gin, a machine that separated cotton seeds from fibers. He worked with Phineas Miller as a business partner on the production of the cotton gin.
Family
He married Henrietta Edwards in 1817 and had a daughter, Pierpont Edwards.

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