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An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor.

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Eli Whitney
Age: 59 †
Born: 1765
Born: December 8
Died: 1825
Died: January 8
Engineer
Entrepreneur
Inventor
Politician
Tax Collector
Westboro
Massachusetts
Eli Whitney Jr.
Valuable
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Worthless
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