Historians would agree that Eli Whitney was one of the greatest fathers of mechanical engineering of all time. Eli Whitney was born in the small rural town of Westborough, Massachusetts on December 8th, 1765. He was born to Eli and Elizabeth Whitney and after a few years he became the oldest of three other siblings. When Eli Whitney was five years an unfortunate birth incident resulted in the loss of his would have been youngest brother, Josiah. In 1777, when Eli was twelve, his mother died and that end up with him having to take care of his two brothers and his sister while his father work...

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