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1765, Dec 8 1793-1825 1825, Jan 8
an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South. Whitney's invention made upland short cotton into a profitable crop, which strengthened the economic foundation of slavery in the United States. Despite the social and economic impact of his invention, Whitney lost many profits in legal battles over patent infringement for the cotton gin. Thereafter, he turned his attention into securing contracts with the government in the manufacture of muskets for the newly formed United States Army. He continued making arms and inventing until his death in 1825.
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Eli Whitney 1765, Dec 8 1793
1825 1825, Jan 8
John Fitch 1743, Jan 21 1780 1799 1798, Jul 2 an American inventor, clockmaker, entrepreneur and engineer. He was most famous for operating the... Thomas Paine [2] 1736, Jan 29 1761 1804 1809, Jun 8 an English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary. One of... Jean-Pierre Blanchard 1753, Jul 4 1784 1808 1809, Mar 7 a French inventor, best known as a pioneer in balloon flight. Blanchard toured Europe, demonstrat... Charles Newbold 1780 1790 1809 unknown an American blacksmith born in 1780 in Chesterfield Township, New Jersey. On June 26, 1797, Newbo... David Peacock unknown 1800 1809 unknown from New Jersey, was granted a patent on 1 April 1807 for an iron plow. Charles Newbold, a previo... Charles Willson Peale 1741, Apr 15 1770 1810 1827, Feb 22 an American painter, soldier, scientist, inventor, politician and naturalist. He is best remember... Alexander Cumming 1733 1750 1814 1814, Mar 8 a Scottish watchmaker and instrument inventor, who was the first to patent a design of the flush ... Philip Astley 1742, Jan 8 1759 1814 1814, Jan 27 an English equestrian, circus owner, and inventor, regarded as being the "father of the modern ci... Benjamin Thompson 1753, Mar 26 1766 1814 1814, Aug 21 an American-born British physicist and inventor whose challenges to established physical theory w... Robert Fulton 1765, Nov 14 1793 1815 1815, Feb 24 an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing a commercially successfu... Samuel Hopkins [2] 1743, Dec 9 1759 1819 1818 an American inventor from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On July 31, 1790, he was granted the first ... Alessandro Volta 1745, Feb 18 1774 1819 1827, Mar 5 an Italian physicist, chemist, and a pioneer of electricity and power, who is credited as the inv... James S. McLean unknown 1790 1819 unknown James Sylvanus McLean, a native of York, Pennsylvania, received a patent for an improvement in pi... Mary Dixon Kies 1752, Mar 21 1800 1819 1837 an American inventor. On May 5, 1809, her patent for a new technique of weaving straw with silk a... Peter Durand unknown 1810 1819 unknown a British merchant who is widely credited with receiving the first patent for the idea of preserv... Jethro Wood 1774, Mar 16 1810 1819 1834 of Scipio, NY. He received two patents, one in 1814 and the other in 1819. His plow was cast iron... Rene Laennec 1781, Feb 17 1804 1826 1826, Aug 13 a French physician. He invented the stethoscope in 1816, while working at the Hôpital Necker, an... Sir Humphry Davy 1778, Dec 17 1795 1829 1829, May 29 a Cornish chemist and inventor, who is best remembered today for his discoveries of several alkal... James Boyd unknown 1820 1829 unknown an immigrant from Ireland living in Boston, received a patent for a cotton-webbed fire hose that ... Noah Cushing 1779, Oct 16 1820 1829 1850, Dec 27 Born in Putney, Windham, Vermont, USA on 16 October, 1779 to Noah Matthew Cushing and Abigail Loc... Samuel Morey 1762, Oct 23 1780 1834 1843, Apr 17 an American inventor, who worked on early internal combustion engines and was a pioneer in steams... Pavel Schilling 1786, Apr 5 1810 1837 1837, Jul 25 a diplomat of Baltic German origin employed in the service of Russia in Germany, and who built a ... E. K. Gauzen unknown 1820 1839 unknown a Russian naval technician. Working in the Russian naval base at Kronshtadt near Saint Petersbur... Alpheus Babcock 1785, Sep 11 1809 1842 1842, Apr 3 a piano and musical instrument maker in Boston, Massachusetts and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania duri... Ithiel Town 1784, Oct 3 1810 1843 1844, Jun 13 a prominent American architect and civil engineer. One of the first generation of professional ar... Karl Drais 1785, Apr 29 1817 1845 1851, Dec 10 a German inventor, who invented the Laufmaschine ("running machine"), also later called the veloc... Petro Prokopovych 1775 1798 1850 1850 the founder of commercial beekeeping. He introduced novelties in traditional beekeeping that allo... Thomas L. Jennings 1791 1820 1855 1856, Feb 12 an African-American tradesman and abolitionist in New York City, New York. He operated and owned ... Pierre Adolphe Piorry 1794, Dec 31 1816 1859 1879, May 29 a French physician born in Poitiers. He invented pleximetry (a method for the investigation of in... Michael Faraday 1791, Sep 22 1813 1866 1867, Aug 25 an English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His m... John Herschel 1792, Mar 7 1816 1867 1871, May 11 an English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor, experimental photographer, and... David Rittenhouse 1732, Apr 8 1750 187 1796, Jun 26 a renowned American astronomer, inventor, clockmaker, mathematician, surveyor, scientific instrum... Charles Babbage 1791, DEc 26 1815 1871 1871, Oct 18 an English polymath. A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage is b... Anyos Jedlik 1800, Jan 11 1817 1873 1895, Dec 13 a Hungarian inventor, engineer, physicist, and Benedictine priest. He was also a member of the Hu... Zachariah Allen 1795, Sep 15 1815 1879 1882, Mar 17 an American textile manufacturer, scientist, lawyer, writer, inventor and civil leader from Provi... John Deere 1804, Feb 7 1821 1886 1886, May 17 an American blacksmith and manufacturer who founded Deere & Company, one of the largest and leadi... Antonio Meucci 1808, Apr 13 1823 1887 1889, Oct 18 an Italian inventor and an associate of Giuseppe Garibaldi. Meucci is best known for developing a... Pellegrino Turri unknown 1800 189 unknown an Italian inventor, invented a mechanical typing machine, one of the first typewriters at the st...
