Bibliograph

Eli Whitney and the Industrial Revolution, Heather Moore Niver

Type

Label

Eli Whitney and the Industrial Revolution, Heather Moore Niver

Language

eng

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

photographsportraitsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Eli Whitney and the Industrial Revolution

Responsibility statement

Heather Moore Niver

Series statement

Great entrepreneurs in U.S. history

Summary

Profiles the life and achievements of the inventor whose creation of the cotton gin, as well as a machine that could mass-produce muskets, transformed the American economy and greatly influenced manufacturing

Table Of Contents

Man of many talents -- Eli's early life -- School and work -- Friends and cotton -- Sticky problems -- Inventing the cotton gin -- Patents and problems -- A new start and new ideas -- Manufacturing muskets -- Shaping industries -- Forming a factory -- Learning lessons -- Changing lives -- Glossary -- Index -- Websites

Target audience

juvenile

Classification