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Blake (ELI WHITNEY an Amer can)

ELI WHITNEY, an Amerícan inventor, born in Westboro, Mass., Jan. 27, 1795; graduated at Yale University in 1816. He began business with his uncle, Eli Whitney, in the manufacture of fire-arms; and in 1834 founded, near New Haven, Conn., the pioneer factory for the manufacture of domestic hardware. In 1857 he invented the widely known stone and ore crusher called the Blake crusher, which introduced a new era in road making and mining industries, and is used throughout the world. He died in New Haven, Conn., Aug. 17,