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[Ya-ta Boy]

Last Saturday I bought a computer table (W71,000!!!) with an extra sliding table so I have a place to work right at my elbow, at Costco and a computer chair. They were delivered in boxes on Monday and I got to spend my Tuesday assembling them.

I have to say that Eli Whitney deserves a huge THANK YOU for making my life more pleasant. Everything went together without a hitch. No missing parts, no directions in butchered, incomprehensible English, no left-over pieces. Both companies even included the tools needed.

Life with a new table and chair is wonderful.

Thank you, Mr. Whitney:

By the late 1790s,... The new American government, realizing the need to prepare for war, began to rearm. The War Department issued contracts for the manufacture of 10,000 muskets. Whitney, who had never made a gun in his life, obtained a contract in January, 1798 to deliver ten to fifteen thousand muskets in 1800. He had not mentioned interchangeable parts at that time. Ten months later, Treasury Secretary Wolcott sent him a "foreign pamphlet on arms manufacturing techniques," possibly one of Honor� Blanc's reports, after which Whitney first began to talk about interchangeability. After spending most of 1799-1801 in cotton gin litigation, Whitney began promoting the idea of interchangeable parts, and even arranged a public demonstration of the concept in order to gain time. He did not deliver on the contract until 1809, but then spent the rest of his life publicizing the idea of interchangeability.

[huffdaddy]

Short answer: no

http://www.eliwhitney.org/cotton.htm