Eli Whitney and the birth of American technology
(Book)
Contributors
Handlin, Oscar, 1915-2011, editor.
Published
Boston : Little, Brown, [1956].
ISBN
0316326216, 9780316326216
Status
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor - Memoir and Biography | B WHITNEY | On Shelf |
Summit Public Library District - Stacks | 921 WHI | On Shelf |
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Published
Boston : Little, Brown, [1956].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
vii, 215 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
ISBN
0316326216, 9780316326216
Notes
Description
A series of specific challenges led Eli Whitney to exercise his ingenuity in technology and made him an engineer. His cotton gin revolutionized Southern agriculture. And the problems of manufacturing large quantities of guns drove him to develop principles important in his own time, and even more important later. The application of those principles would one day give American industry the structure within which it more than fulfilled the ambitions of the Revolutionary generation. This is the absorbing story Constance Green has told through a skillful mingling of personal narrative and technological analysis. - Editor's preface.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Green, C. M., & Handlin, O. (1956). Eli Whitney and the birth of American technology ([First edition].). Little, Brown.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Green, Constance McLaughlin, 1897-1975 and Oscar Handlin. 1956. Eli Whitney and the Birth of American Technology. Little, Brown.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Green, Constance McLaughlin, 1897-1975 and Oscar Handlin. Eli Whitney and the Birth of American Technology Little, Brown, 1956.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Green, Constance McLaughlin, and Oscar Handlin. Eli Whitney and the Birth of American Technology [First edition]., Little, Brown, 1956.
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