Eli Whitney Museum

915 Whitney Avenue
Hamden, CT, 06517
203-777-1833

URL : http://www.eliwhitney.org

overview : Of all the post-Revolutionary Americans who grew up without knowing the name for what they felt within themselves, Eli Whitney had the most tortuous career. Yet more than any other one man, he shaped the opposing faces of both the North and South for a half-century to come.

collections : In 1798 Eli Whitney built a firearms factory near New Haven. The muskets his workmen made by methods comparable to those of modern mass industrial production were the first to have standardized, interchangeable parts.

topics : inventions, inventors, technology