It is often discussed whether or not talent is inborn or if it is acquired through practice. Can anyone possess talent, or do you have to be what they call âa naturalâ? It is said that, some talents confined to an individual such as sports and music are innate.
After his four years of college he graduated from Yale and after his graduation in 1792, he went to Georgia. There he planned to teach and study law. While he was in Georgia he met Phineas Miller, who was also at Yale. He helped Eli with a place to stay, and introduced him to Catherine Littlefield Greene.
In popular mythology, Eli Whitney has been deemed the father of American technology, for two innovations: the cotton gin, and the idea of using interchangeable parts. Young Entrepreneur Eli Whitney was born in 1765 and grew up on a Massachusetts farm. During the Revolutionary War he manufactured nails to fill the demand caused by British embargos. Young Eli quickly learned how the marketplace worked, and diversified into hatpins and canes.