WHITNEY, ELI
\wˈɪtnɪ], \wˈɪtnɪ], \w_ˈɪ_t_n_ɪ]\
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(1765-1825), of Connecticut, was the inventor of the cotton-gin, which so facilitated the preparation of cotton that it increased its exportation from 189,500 pounds in 1791 to 41,000,000 pounds in 1803. In 1798 he established an arms-factory near New Haven, Conn., which was the first one in America. He supplied the Government with arms of a superior quality.
By John Franklin Jameson
