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Despite a few weird plot points, such as Eli Whitney (famed inventor of the cotton gin!) being accidentally responsible for creating the weapon that would destroy the world, the plot is fairly formulaic.
Film Threat Jessica Baxter 2010
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Or suppose a new invention, such as Eli Whitney's cotton gin, increases the production of a good (cotton).
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Even pros like Grey, Walter (currently doing Emmy-worthy work in Archer, the best sitcom on TV) and John McMartin (as Eli Whitney) can't do more than get by.
Michael Giltz: Theater: Seaworthy "Anything Goes;" Heavenly "Divine Sister" Michael Giltz 2011
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This is explained with drawings of Eli Whitney's cotton gin, which was a marvel of the industrial revolution but also controversial—it made slave labor more profitable because the Northern mills could now process more cotton.
Behind the Dividing Line of Slavery Mark Yost 2011
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The missing items include telegrams written by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War; the Wright brothers' patent for a flying machine; Eli Whitney's patent for the cotton gin; Lyndon Johnson's class ring from the Coast Guard; an official portrait of Franklin D.
National Archives hunts for missing treasures with recovery team 2011
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Even pros like Grey, Walter (currently doing Emmy-worthy work in Archer, the best sitcom on TV) and John McMartin (as Eli Whitney) can't do more than get by.
Michael Giltz: Theater: Seaworthy "Anything Goes;" Heavenly "Divine Sister" Michael Giltz 2011
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Later crazy old Quentin decides to use an invention by Eli Whitney (yes that Eli Whitney) to blow up Washington, DC.
Jackie K. Cooper: Jonah Hex : Why Did They Make This Movie? 2010
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When I think of inventors or innovators, I picture exalted folks such as Thomas Edison and Eli Whitney, the type of figures phone book-size biographies are written about.
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It was an Eli Whitney model, the musket, from 1861.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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Later crazy old Quentin decides to use an invention by Eli Whitney (yes that Eli Whitney) to blow up Washington, DC.
Jackie K. Cooper: Jonah Hex: Why Did They Make This Movie? 2010
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