Editor’s note: This is the 44th story in the Register’s Top 50 series. Countless products, ideas and works of art have been produced in New Haven and by its sons and daughters. Inventors in New Haven ...

click image for close-up In October of 1793, Eli Whitney sent a drawing of his new invention, the cotton gin, to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson in application for a patent. Jefferson replied on ...

Why is Whitney So Important? Next on our list of Top Ten Patent Wars is not the one that most patent historians think of, the so-called “Sewing Machine” Wars of the 1850s-1860s, which is intriguing ...

Painted by King. Mr. Whitney married a granddaughter of the elder President Edwards. [P. 7.] Hand-Book of the Centennial Exhibition of Antiquarian and Revolutionary Relics, held in New Haven, ...

On this day in economic and financial history... Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin on March 14, 1794. For the first time, American plantation owners would be able to harvest large ...

Kwadwo Adae at work on the Bouchet mural. Credit: Ainissa Ramirez file photo Robert Lucas: “My main point is rethinking Eli Whitney.” Should Whitney Avenue hold onto the name of the cotton-gin ...

Westborough is forming a committee to review whether the town should change its official seal, an emblem that currently features Eli Whitney’s cotton gin. Whitney, who was born in Westborough in 1765 ...