Eli Whitney and His Fake Interchangeable Gun Parts Demo
Our American Stories
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4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Our American Stories, when Apple founder Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone to the public in 2007, he used multiple iPhones. If one crashed or had another issue, he secretly swapped it for another one. He had to show off a specific set of functions in a certain order, called the “golden path.” But way back in 1801, another young inventor named Eli Whitney–already known for his invention of the cotton gin in 1794–seized an opportunity to try to make his fortune.
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