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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, what he 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. Whitney claimed to have invented interchangeable parts for muskets.

He unveiled this invention with a jobs-like presentation before a group of men,

which included the outgoing President John Adams and the recently elected Thomas Jefferson.

Here to tell the story is our regular contributor, Ashley Lubinsky.

Ashley is the former co-host of Discovery Channel's Master of Arms,

the former curator in charge of the Cody Firearms Museum, and president of the Gun Code LLC.

Here's Ashley.

When you're in school, you learn about a lot of different historic figures throughout American culture.

You learn about people like Henry Ford and his assembly line, and you hear about Eli Whitney and his cotton gin.

And these histories are really wrapped up in a nice little bow.

But when you get older and possibly study history you learn that things aren't always as simple as you learned in school

and aren't always as true as you learned in school and one part of those narratives that's often left out is the fact

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