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Steamboats to transport the cotton

Weaving and Spinning machines for the cotton

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Eli Whitney, is a very important man in history and the world would be very different had it not been for him. A whole project could have been done on Eli Whitney alone, if you feel like you want to learn more about him, follow some of the links. Eli Whitney gave the world his invention of the Cotton Gin.

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With David Bushnell starting college when he did it was during the time of the American Revolution. Throughout his experiments he mainly wanted to figure out away to deliver his underwater mines or explosives. From Bushnell's creative thinking outside the box, it gave birth to the invention of the Submarine. His submarine was crafted out of wood and metal, at the time most boots were made out of wood. To the right is a picture that depicts what the blueprint of his craft looked like, from the library of congress and below is another similar picture that shows what the different parts were.

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Bushnell was born in 1740 in the Saybrook area which is now Westbrook.  Bushnell started studying to go to Yale after he sold his half of the farm that his father had left him when he passed away.  After selling his half of the farm, it took him 5 years to study and be able to get accepted into Yale.  Bushnell started his college venture at the age of 31.  Throughout his time at Yale, David Bushnell was experimenting with ways to make underwater explosives and how to get them to explode underwater. It was at Yale and the ideas from New Haven that gave David his influences to create his inventions to what they were.

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Bushnell's invention of his submarine, gave way to a lot of future developments and inventions in a lot of different fields. His invention mainly gave way to the expansion in marine development. Without Bushnell coming around and putting in his contribution, navel forces might not be what they are today. Other inventors wouldn't have had the idea to build off of and expand off of, and the world might have not seen a submarine for decades after we did.

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This is a picture of the Cotton Gin as it sits in the Eli Whitney Museum in Hamden.

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Without gaining some of the insight these historical figures did, the world might not be the same

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The Cotton Gin was an important invention that helped shape the world to what it is today. The Cotton Gin was created in 1793, and what it did was it allowed for the separation of the raw cotton to separate the cotton seeds from the cotton fibers. Whitney's invention fueled the demand for cotton.  To where the demand was doubling each year after 1800, up until America was producing almost 75% of the worlds cotton during the mid nineteenth century. The increase of demand of cotton led to many other important inventions of the Industrial revolution, but it also had some negative consequences such as the increase in slavery. Increases in the amounts of slaves in the country increased tremendously, as well as the size of the plantations rose with the rise of demand for cotton. Farmers that weren't planting cotton weren't as profitable either.

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1765-1825

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Eli's Contributions to the world didn't end with the Cotton Gin

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Eli's Contributions to the world didn't end with the Cotton Gin

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Eli Whitney also was the first inventor of a firearm with interchangeable parts.

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In 1798 Eli Whitney built a firearms factory near New Haven. The muskets his workmen made by methods comparable to those of modern mass industrial production were the first to have standardized, interchangeable parts.
*text taken from eliwhitney.org*

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Interchangeable parts are different kinds parts that can used to assemble the same gun in different ways. Using his idea from the cotton gin and applying it to a different market allowed him to create a lot more guns in a more timely fashion, which kept costs down through his methods.

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Winchester Repeating Arms, was originally called Volcanic Repeating Arms Company. In 1857, Oliver Winchester bought out Volcanic Arms company, and on May 22, 1866 he had changed the name to his own and Winchester Repeating Arms was created

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Founder of Winchester Repeating Arms
1810-1880

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"The Gun that Won the West"

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Throughout the time Winchester Arms developed not just guns, but also different kinds of ammo like this one below.  This is a picture of Winchesters smokeless centerfire bullets, and was first introduced in 1895.

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This pump action shotgun was first introduced in 1897, hence the name. And at the time this gun coming out of New Haven was the best on the market

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Without Oliver Winchester and Winchester Repeating arms history might have been drastically different. Through the innovations and creations that the Winchester contributed, helped make the firearm industry what it is today. If they had not been created the gun industry could have taken longer to progress as it did.

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Important Inventions and Contributions of the Winchester Company

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Important Inventions and Contributions of the Winchester Company

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Different Types of Lever-action rifles

Pump shotguns like the one above

Different Kinds of Ammo

Engraving catalog for its guns that inspires engravers today

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Different models started coming out a few years after the first sets, that had little motors to build different things. At first the sets were just to build bridges and buildings, but then slowly evolved into other kinds of sets

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1884-1961

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The Erector Set was a toy that was designed in 1913 by Alfred Gilbert.

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Was a toy that was used to inspire and spark the minds of young engineers and inventors

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Alfred Gilbert was also a Yale Student and gained his insight from some of the ideas that he learned at Yale. Without going to Yale he wouldn't have gotten his ideas from the train ride between New Haven and New York

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Goodyear Tire company is named after him.

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Rubber hoses of All types used in all different kinds of fields.

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Charles born in New Haven, and is the inventor or Vulcanized Rubber.

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His discovery allowed for the commercialization of Rubber

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Charles Goodyear, inventor of Vulcanized Rubber

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Charles Goodyear, inventor of Vulcanized Rubber

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1800-1860

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Vulcanized Rubber is more common then you think.

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Vulcanized Rubber is more common then you think.

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Without it we these common things might not exist

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Car tires

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Hockey Pucks

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Shoe soles

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The list can go on and on some other examples are 

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The list can go on and on some other examples are 

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Conveyor Belts

Treadmill Belts

Erasers

Different kinds of toys

Bouncy Balls

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Things would be a lot different had the world not had Vulcanized Rubber.

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Things would be a lot different had the world not had Vulcanized Rubber.

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Just think about your life and how it would be different without some of these common things you don't think of everyday.

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It is rubber that is treated to have more resistance to heat and cold

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Silly Putty was created in 1943, during World War II on complete accident. With shortages of natural rubber occurring scientists at a GE lab in New Haven accidentally made the discovery trying to produce a type of synthetic rubber in an effort to help the Americans in the time of war.

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What would your childhood been like without Silly Putty?

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What would your childhood been like without Silly Putty?

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I know mine would be different by not having the memories of copying the comics from the newspaper onto my silly putty or making bouncy balls out of it to throw around.

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Used for turning cotton to textile, an invention that was a result to make use of the cotton. I took this picture at the South Carolina State Museum.

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Yarn Spinner in the SC state Museum

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The Frisbee didn't start out as a plastic disc that we toss back and forth to each other. The history behind the frisbee might surprise you. At the end of the 19th century a bakery opened up called Frisbee Pie's. Students at Yale would buy the pies and and use the tins after they ate them to play around. It's said that they would call out "Frisbee" to alert the person their throwing the disc to and thats how the activity ended up getting its name. On the West Coast there was a guy named Fred Morrison that was doing the same thing at the time, throwing the pie tins but not calling it a frisbee. He developed a plastic frisbee that he called the, "Pluto Plater" in 1951. Then in 1955 he was selling it with toy maker Wham-O. Shortly after in 1957, its thought that the Wham-O makers heard the term Frisbee while on tour of the Ivy League Schools and coins the names for themselves

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The original Frisbie pie tin

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The Lolly Pop got its name from Bradley Smith Company in New Haven on October 13, 1931. George Smith was the first to put the hard candy on a stick, he started putting candy on a stick back in 1908. However it took his company a while to get exclusive rights to the name. They were selling their Lolly Pops for almost two decades before they got the rights to the name

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The World would be a lot different if their wasn't the contributions made by the people of New Haven.

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The World would be a lot different if their wasn't the contributions made by the people of New Haven.

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If we didn't have these inventions the world might not have been as advanced as it is today. The inventions in the different industries as well as recreation inventions helped us to get to where we are now. Without them things could have been drastically different. We might not have had the advantage in the wars that we did through the firearm industry. Also if the cotton gin was never invented mass production and the Industrial Revolution and Slavery in the south could have been differently. In addition to that things might not be the same in terms of rubber and everything that that has rubber in it.  Our childhoods might have been different as a result of some of the inventions not being there.

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Other inventions that Connecticut contributed to the World

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Other inventions that Connecticut contributed to the World

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Colt .45 Revolver

Portable Typewriter

Nuclear Submarine

The Dictionary

Anesthesia

Whiffle Balls

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To learn more about Vulcanized Rubber follow these links.

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To learn more about Vulcanized Rubber follow these links.

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More about what Vulcanized Rubber, Click Here

To learn more about Charles Goodyear, Click Here, or here

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If you'd like to learn more about Alfret Gilbert and the Erector Set follow the link below

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If you'd like to learn more about Alfret Gilbert and the Erector Set follow the link below

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Click here

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If you want to learn more about Oliver Winchester and the Winchester Repeating Arms follow these links

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If you want to learn more about Oliver Winchester and the Winchester Repeating Arms follow these links

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More about Oliver Winchester, Click Here

More on Winchester Repeating Arms and other guns they made, Click Here

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To learn some more on Eli Whitney follow these links

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To learn some more on Eli Whitney follow these links

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More on the Cotton Gin, Here

And, Here

More on the Interchangeable Parts, Here

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Learning more on David Bushnell can be done by following this links

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Learning more on David Bushnell can be done by following this links

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You can learn more on the Frisbee by

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You can learn more about how the lollipop got its name by

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Picture of the Bradley Smith Company in New Haven in the 1900's

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David Bushnell Sources:

Milkofsky, Brenda. “David Busnell and his Revolutionary Submarine.” Connecticut History, connecticuthistory.org/david-bushnell-and-his-revolutionary-submarine/.

Eli Whitney Sources:

“The Cotton Gin.” Eli Whitney Museum and workshop, www.eliwhitney.org/7/museum/eli-whitney/cotton-gin.

Schur, Joan. “Eli Whitney's Patent for the Cotton Gin.” National Archives, www.archives.gov/education/lessons/cotton-gin-patent.

“Interchangeable Parts.” History.com, www.history.com/topics/inventions/interchangeable-parts.

Winchester Sources:

Rattenbury, Richard C. “Oliver Fischer Winchester.” Encyclopedia Brittanica, www.britannica.com/biography/Oliver-Fisher-Winchester

“The Complete History of Winchester Repeating Arms.” Winchester Repeating Arms, www.winchesterguns.com/news/historical-timeline.html.

Erector Set Sources:

“Alfred Carlton Gilbert, Inventor of the Erector Set.” Connecticut History, connecticuthistory.org/alfred-carlton-gilbert-inventor-of-the-erector-set-today-in-history-february-15/.

Charles Goodyear Sources:

“Charles Goodyear American Inventor.” Encyclopedia Brittanica, www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Goodyear.

“Vulcanized Rubber.” Tech-FAQ, www.tech-faq.com/vulcanized-rubber.html.

Frisbee Sources:

“History of the Frisbee.” World Flying Disc Federation, www.wfdf.org/history-stats/history-of-flying-disc/4-history-of-the-frisbee.

Silly Putty Sources:

Thayer, Ann. “What's that Stuff? Silly Putty.” Chemical & Engineering News, pubs.acs.org/cen/whatstuff/stuff/7848scit3.html.

Staff, News . “The Weird Accident Behind The Invention of Silly Putty.” Science 2.0, 9 May 2011, 8:00am, www.science20.com/news_articles/weird_accident_behind_invention_silly_putty-78817.

Lolly Pop Sources:

“New Haven Gives the Lollipop its Name.” Connecticut History, connecticuthistory.org/new-haven-gives-the-lollipop-its-name-today-in-history/.

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1.     http://shop.crayola.com/dw/image/v2/AALB_PRD/on/demandware.static/-/Sites-crayola-storefront/default/dw85fc266f/images/toys-category-images/SP_Logo_1b.jpg?sw=390&sh=350&sm=fit&sfrm=jpg

2.     https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71CJfGsJwQS._UL1500_.jpg

3.     http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2006691759/

4.     http://www.rfgco.com/erector/cover.jpg

5.     https://connecticuthistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/ErectorSet-e1330179296771-610x406.jpg

6.     https://connecticuthistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/ACGilbert-610x330.jpg