Memoir of Eli Whitney, EsqDurrie & Peck, 1846 - 80 sivua |
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afterwards ALPHEUS FELCH American amount called the Saw cent Congress constructed contract cotton cleaned cotton districts cotton gin cotton trade court crop cultivation cylinder defendant DENISON OLMSTED ELI WHITNEY embarrassments engaged enterprise exportation of upland extended father favorable friends furnished genius Georgia Governor Tompkins Greene Haven improvement industry ingenuity inventor Judge Johnson justice labor land legislature of South letter liberal machinery mankind manufacture of arms mechanical memoir ment merit Miller & Whitney mind muskets Nightingale object observations obtained OLIVER WOLCOTT operation opinion original invention patent gin patent-right period persons plaintiff planters principle produced production of cotton remarks respect Savannah Saw Gin seed separating cotton soon South Carolina staple Stebbins suit teeth thing thousand dollars tion tubes United upland cotton views Whit Whitney's machine whole wire Worcester County workmen Yale College Yazoo lands
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Sivu 52 - The object at which he aimed, and which he fully accomplished, was to make the same parts of different guns, as the locks, for example, as much like each other as the successive impressions of a copper-plate engraving.
Sivu 43 - ... to engage their attention and employ their industry, when the invention of this machine at once opened views to them which set the whole country in active motion: From childhood to age, it has presented to us a lucrative employment. Individuals who were depressed with poverty and sunk in idleness, have suddenly risen to wealth and respectability. Our debts have been paid off, our capitals have increased, and our lands trebled in value. We cannot express the weight of obligation which the country...
Sivu 17 - The many hours he spent in his mysterious pursuits afforded matter of great curiosity, and often of raillery, to the younger members of the family. Near the close of the winter, the machine was so nearly completed as to leave no doubt of its success. Mrs Greene then invited to her house gentlemen from different parts of the state; and on the first day after they had assembled, she conducted them to a temporary building which had been erected for the machine, and they saw with astonishment and delight...
Sivu 18 - An invention so important to the agricultural interest (and, as it has proved, to every department of human industry,) could not long remain a secret. The knowledge of it soon spread through the State, and so great was the excitement on the subject, that multitudes of persons came from all quarters of...
Sivu 19 - It is about a year since I first turned my attention to constructing this machine, at which time I was in the State of Georgia. Within about ten days after my first conception of the plan, I made a small, though imperfect, model. Experiments with this encouraged me to make one on a larger scale; but the extreme difficulty of procuring workmen and proper materials in Georgia prevented my completing the larger one until some time in April last.
Sivu 39 - ... the invention and the improvement of a machine, from which the citizens of South Carolina have already realized immense profits, — which is worth to them millions, and from which their posterity, to the latest generations, must continue to derive the most important benefits, and in return to be treated as a felon, a swindler, and a villain, has stung him to the very soul. And when he considers that this cruel persecution is inflicted by the very persons who are enjoying these great benefits,...
Sivu 16 - Miller, who warmly encouraged him, and assigned him a room in the basement of the house, where he set himself to work with such rude materials and instruments as a Georgia plantation afforded. With these resources, however, he made tools better suited to his purpose, and drew his own wire (of which the teeth of the earliest gins were made...
Sivu 57 - ... from no State had he received the amount of half a cent per pound on the cotton cleaned with his machines in one year. Estimating the value of the labor of one man at twenty cents per day, the whole amount which had been received by him for his invention was not equal to the value of the labor saved in one hour by his machines then in use in the United States.
Sivu 42 - Is there a man who hears us who has not experienced its iltility? the whole interior of the southern states was languishing, and its inhabitants emigrating for want of some object to engage their attention and employ their industry, when the invention of this machine at once opened views to them which set the whole country in active motion.
Sivu 9 - This gave my brother an opportunity of learning the use of tools when very young. He lost no time, but as soon as he could handle tools he was always making something in the shop, and seemed not to like working on the farm.