Exhibits focus on the island's natural and cultural history, including the Timucua Indians, cotton plantations that were established by American Revolutionary hero General Nathaniel Greene and cotton-gin inventor Eli Whitney, the history of the ruined mansion Dungeness and the Plum Orchard estate, and area activities during the War of 1812.
An early leader was Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, an 18th-century French artillerist who created a fair amount of standardization of artillery pieces, although not true interchangeability of parts.
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Although Whitney's demonstration of 1801 appeared to show the ingenuity of interchangeable parts, Merritt Roe Smith concludes that Whitney's demonstration was "staged" and "duped government authorities" into believing that he had created interchangeable parts.
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Mrs. Greene invited Whitney to visit her Georgia plantation, Mulberry Grove.
Eli Whitney Debevoise was born in Manhattan on December 14, 1899 and named after his great-great grandfather, Eli Whitney, the inventor of the cotton gin.
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The Museum features exhibitions on New Haven, La Amistad, local art and decorative arts, with collections associated with Eli Whitney, Winchester, Yale, East Rock, Noah Webster, Benedict Arnold as well as changing exhibitions.
Eli Whitney Debevoise II, commonly known as “Whitney Debevoise,” was born in Morristown, New Jersey in 1953 and graduated from the St. Albans School in Washington, D.C. in 1970.