Eli Whitney is considered to be one of the innovators. Whitney began tutoring in South Carolina after graduating from Yale. In fact, upon his arrival, his salary proposal was cut in half, causing him ...

He thinks Whitney Avenue should be renamed, and is also urging Yale to rethink how it uses Eli Whitney’s name, including its Eli Whitney Students Program, which serves nontraditional students ...

The dam was built under an agreement between entrepreneur Eli Whitney, a contractor (W.C. McCullen and Son), and the New Haven Water Company, predecessor to the RWA. Thanks to the dam, Whitney got ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — A Yale University business student is proposing renaming Whitney Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut. The student, Robert Lucas, said the legacy of Eli Whitney should be ...

“Eli Whitney’s principal legacy was the invention of the cotton gin, and that led to the expansion of slavery,” Lucas said. “The basic idea was creating a machine – or create and patent ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — A Yale University business student is proposing renaming Whitney Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut. The student, Robert Lucas, said the legacy of Eli Whitney should be ...