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The Invention Dimension: Eli Whitney

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Description: Biography explores how Whitney's best-known invention transformed the economies of the antebellum North and South.
The third best known American inventor of the pre-atomic age, after Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, is probably Eli Whitney. Whitney certainly transformed the economies of the antebellum North and South. But among invention aficionados, his invention of the cotton gin is a matter of some dispute.
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