subject: Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney Memorial
- – Postcard commemorating Westborough native Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin and mass production. Whitney was the son of Betsey Fay and descendent of John Fay, one of the town's earliest settlers. George Washington signed Eli Whitney's first patent.
- – Manufacturing.
- – Whitney, Eli (1765-1825)
- – Inventors
- – Cotton Gin
- – Westboro (Westborough) (Mass.)
- – In the collection of the Westborough Public Library Westborough Room, Westborough, Massachusetts. http://www.westboroughlib.org
- – image/jpg
- – English


