Introduces the life of Eli Whitney, including his childhood on a Massachusetts farm, his invention of the cotton gin, and his development of mass production, a process of making individual parts then assembling them into a finished product.
| How Things Are Made |
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4 | (2) |
| The Early Years |
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6 | (2) |
| Trying New Things |
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8 | (2) |
| Working and Studying |
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10 | (2) |
| Going to Georgia |
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12 | (2) |
| The First Cotton Gin |
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14 | (2) |
| Eli's Big Idea |
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16 | (2) |
| Starting Over |
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18 | (2) |
| A New Way to Make Guns |
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20 | (2) |
| A New Factory |
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22 | (2) |
| Working Hard |
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24 | (2) |
| The Later Years |
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26 | (2) |
| Learning More About Eli Whitney |
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28 | (2) |
| Fact File |
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30 | (1) |
| Timeline |
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30 | (1) |
| Glossary |
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31 | (1) |
| More Books to Read |
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31 | (1) |
| Index |
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