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Eli Whitney: The Man Who Didn't Invent Interchangeable Parts (But Changed Manufacturing Anyway)

admin · 2026-03-16T23:03:48.472Z

Been reading up on Eli Whitney lately — specifically the gap between what gets taught in school and what historians have actually pinned down. For anyone who thinks about manufacturing history and where our guns come from, it's worth a closer look. After two years of contract performance Whitney had produced exactly zero guns. Instead, he had spent the time building the facility on the Mill River between New Haven and Hamden, Connecticut, designing machinery, and training a workforce. Eight...

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Eli Whitney: The Man Who Didn't Invent Interchangeable Parts (But Changed Manufacturing Anyway)

Eli Whitney occupies a strange position in the history of firearms—simultaneously one of the most celebrated and most overstated figures in American manufacturing. Born in Westborough, Massachusetts in 1765, Whitney is credited with two inventions th

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