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Eli Whitney

On September 17th 1798, Eli Whitney purchased the land around the museum. He sought its water rights. East Rock and Mill Rock form the first practical site north of New Haven to harness waterpower. There had been grain mills here for the first 150 years since New Haven’s founding. Whitney came here to build a factory.

Inventing Change

Out of necessity, Whitney had a bold plan. New ways of producing things had taken root in Europe. Whitney would install new ways of producing things on this site. Learn More...

The Inventor

More than any other one man, Eli Whitney shaped the opposing faces of both the North and South during the half-century following the Revolution. Learn More...

Arms Production

Over the ninety years of the Whitney Armory's existence, much technological change took place both in metal and wood-working machinery and in metallurgical capabilities. Learn more...

Dale Olson's Inventory of Whitney Lever Action Guns

The Factory

In 1798 Eli Whitney built a firearms factory near New Haven. The muskets his workmen made were the first to have standardized, interchangeable parts. Learn More...

The Family

Eli Whitney, Jr. was the only son of Eli and Henrietta Edwards Whitney. Although his father died when he was only four years old, the younger Whitney grew up in an atmosphere pervaded with entrepreneurial energy. Learn More...

The Cotton Gin

As Eli Whitney left New England and headed South in 1792, he had no idea that within the next seven months he would invent a machine that would profoundly alter the course of American history. Learn More...

Time Machine 1798

Eli Whitney's Factory was established in 1798. These are some of the current events going on at the same time.

Memoir

Memoir of Eli Whitney, Esq by Denison Olmstead. First published in the American Journal of Science, 1832. Learn More...

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