Eli Whitney's Inventions That Shaped America

The Brain controls everything. An idea is created in the brain and it is planned to be made reality. Present day America is filled with inventions that have progressed over the years since they were first invented. Eli Whitney is the brain behind the cotton gin and interchangeable parts and Robert Fulton was the inventor of the steamboat. The creation of the cotton gin, interchangeable parts, and the steamboat are innovations that evolved America leading it to a change. Eli Whitney wrote to his father of his life after college. He wrote to him over his machine, who could operate it producing much more cotton then picking it by hand and could also function by something that exerts greater force making it easier on a human. The cotton gin was
Whitney’s creation of the cotton gin helped shape American agriculture, It made it easier on slaves to pick them but it also had its negative side but it helped. Today growing, picking cotton, and going through the whole process has been made much easier on farmers with the crop and easier for those who now pick them. The invention has shaped America to produce much more compared to when it first appeared and boosted production for farmers. Once the cotton gin came around it created a domino effect leading to the increase in production leading to the steamboat to help transport products but Eli didn’t stop there with one idea he created other inventions leading to a change. The cotton gin, Interchangeable parts, and the steamboat were all a part of the beginning of industrialism. Small innovations began leading to bigger ones that would make life easier in technology, transportation and much more beyond that. Once it began it led to one thing after another like dominoes creating a technological revolution creating new machines in the 19th century and many years after marking a beginning of something