Title Eli Whitney and the Industrial Revolution / Heather Moore Niver.

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New York : PowerKids Press, [2017]

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Location	Call No.	Status
Avon Free Public Library - Children's Department	J 92 WHITNEY	Check Shelf
New Britain, Main Library - Children's Department	J92 WHITNEY	Check Shelf
Simsbury Public Library - Children's Department	JB WHITNEY	Check Shelf

Edition	First edition.
Description	32 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
Series	Great entrepreneurs in U.S. history
	Great entrepreneurs in U.S. history.
Note	Includes index.
Contents	Man of many talents -- Eli's early life -- School and work -- Friends and cotton -- Sticky problems -- Inventing the cotton gin -- Patents and problems -- A new start and new ideas -- Manufacturing muskets -- Shaping industries -- Forming a factory -- Learning lessons -- Changing lives -- Glossary -- Websites.
Summary	Profiles the life and achievements of the inventor whose creation of the cotton gin, as well as a machine that could mass-produce muskets, transformed the American economy and greatly influenced manufacturing.
Subject	Whitney, Eli, 1765-1825 -- Juvenile literature.
	Cotton gins and ginning -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
	Inventors -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Industrial revolution -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
	Whitney, Eli, 1765-1825. (OCoLC)fst00006611
	Whitney, Eli, 1765-1825.
	Cotton gins and ginning. (OCoLC)fst00880970
	Industrial revolution. (OCoLC)fst00971658
	Inventors. (OCoLC)fst00978052
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Inventors.
	Cotton gins and ginning.
	Industrial revolution -- History.
Genre/Form	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
ISBN	9781499421231 (paperback)
	1499421230 (paperback)
	9781499421255 (library bound)
	1499421257 (library bound)
	9781499421248 (6 pack)
	1499421249 (6 pack)

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