WHITNEY


Meaning of WHITNEY in English

I . Eli Whitney

(1765–1825)

an American who in 1793 invented the cotton gin, a machine for separating cotton from its seeds which greatly helped the development of the cotton industry in the South . He was also the first person to produce large numbers of small parts for guns which could be changed without replacing the whole gun.

II . Mount Whitney

a mountain in the Sierra Nevada range in central California . It is 14 494 feet/4 421 metres high and was named after Josiah Whitney (1819–96), the first head of the California State Geological Service, who measured it in 1864.

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