Maker of Machines: A Story about Eli Whitney

by Barbara Mitchell, Jan Naimo Jones (Illustrator)

Overview

Eli Whitney’s love of inventing and pondering new ideas made him one of America’s greatest inventors. Best known for inventing the cotton gin, one of the most important American inventions of the century, he changed cotton production forever. A few years later, Whitney invented machines to make muskets that were identical. The first mass-manufacturing business in the country, his musket factory revolutionized the way Americans made things.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781575056340
Publisher:	Lerner Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/01/2004
Series:	Creative Minds Biographies Series
Pages:	64
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.30(d)
Lexile:	780L (what's this?)
Age Range:	10 - 11 Years