This person came up with his most famous innovation on the way to a tutoring job offered by fellow Yale alum Phineas Miller.
This person came up with his most famous innovation on the way to a tutoring job offered by fellow Yale alum Phineas Miller. This man received funding from Nathanael Greene's widow, Catharine. Edwin Battison argued that a milling machine used in this man's New Haven factory was really the brainchild of Simeon North. This man supposedly met with President Adams and President-Elect Jefferson and wowed them by (*) assembling a musket from a drawer of shuffled pieces he had manufactured. He unsuccessfully demanded 40% of the revenue from material produced by his best known invention. A contract to produce $134,000 worth of guns with his interchangeable parts system helped him pursue patent litigation against Southern farmers. For 10 points, name this inventor of the cotton gin.
This person came up with his most famous innovation on the way to a tutoring job offered by fellow Yale alum Phineas Miller.
Eli Whitney