Born in 1765 in Westboro, Massachusetts, Eli Whitney studied at Yale before going on to invent the cotton gin, a device that highly streamlined the process of extracting fiber from cottonseeds. #Biography
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Eli Whitney - Inventor of the Cotton Gin | Mini Bio | BIO