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Noun: Eli Whitney
  1. United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825)
    - Whitney

Type of: artificer, discoverer, fabricator, inventor, manufacturer, producer

Encyclopedia: Eli Whitney Eli Whitney, North Carolina

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