Piercy, Willis Duff · New York, Charles E. Merrill company · leaf 144
to manufacture thenecessary number of machines. In the second place,no one firm could make gins fast enough to supplythe rapidly increasing demand, and consequentlygreat encouragement was given to infringements onthe patent rights. Unending troubles beset the newfirm. Whitney himself was a victim… … Eli Whitney factory were unable to work. In 1795 Whitney wasagain seized with severe sickness, and to add to thevexations of the business, the books, papers, andmachinery were destroyed by fire. Besides all this,rival claimants circulated a report that Whitneysgin ruined the fiber of the cotton,…
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