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Whitney, Eli

Record IDcnp01342697

URIhttp://data.cerl.org/thesaurus/cnp01342697

Gendermale

Biographical Data1765 - 1825

Last Edit2024-02-08

General Note

Ingénieur-inventeur américain célèbre pour avoir inventé la machine "cotton gin" à séparer le coton des graines aux quelles ses fibres adhèrent. - Célèbre aussi pour avoir trouvé le concept de "production de masse"

Amerikan. Erfinder u. Unternehmer; Charleston (Wirkungsort)

More Information

Further Biographical Data08.12.1765-08.01.1825

1765-1825

Dates of Activity1802

Primary Language(s)English

ActivityPersonen zu Gewerbe allgemein, Industrie, Handwerk (10.12p) (sswd)

Personen zu Technik (ohne Architektur, Bautechnik) (31.16p) (sswd)

Erfinder (gnd)

Mechaniker (gnd)

Unternehmer (gnd)

CountryUSA

Geographic NoteUS (iso3166)

NationalityUnited States

Names

HeadingWhitney, Eli
used in: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris

Whitney, Eli
used in: Integrated Authority File (GND), Germany

Sources

Found inEncycl. Britannica, 1990. — LCNA (CD), 1994-06. — PND

An Engraving, based on a painting of Eli Whitney, an American inventor

[Charles Bird King / This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3g12270.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing. -- Public domain -- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Whitney-Eli-LOC.jpg]