How Did Eli Whitney Impact On American Society And Culture

Eli Whitney has had more impact on American Society and culture than any other person in history for the three following reasons. For instance Eli Whitney was born into a small family who farmed for life. Education was always a must for Eli, he attended school most of his child life eventually ending up at Yale college and graduating just a few years later. As Eli entered the real world he realized that his passion was inventing and mechanics. After a few years of struggling he finally invented the Cotton Gin, the Cotton Gin was invented as a way to make slaves jobs easier on the plantation. The Cotton Gin instead picked out all of the seeds from the Cotton plants itself instead of having all of the slaves have to cut their fingers open from trying to pick out every single seed. Furthermore, Whitney had invented many more things including Interchangeable parts. Interchangeable parts were invented so for example if a part of a machine were to break there could be a quick easy way to replace this by having almost identical parts to the
The Milling machine was quite important to almost any factory worker by making their job much more easier. There are multiple types of Milling machines such as the Vertical, Horizontal, Bed, and Turret. Many different types of tools where used with the MIlling machine including multiple types of Bolts, Screws, and Toolholders. Surprisingly the Milling machine is still available to this day and is still being used all around the world thanks to Eli Whitney. Without Eli Whitney almost all factories would have failed without his inventions. Eli Whitneys impact on America is huge, Americans depend on Machines, Batteries, and Factories as an neccesity to everyday life and without it there would be no mass production of almost