The Arms Notes

1 Eli Whitney, "The Manufacture of Firearms," 1812 memoir, Eli Whitney Collection,YUA.

2 American Slate Papers II, #263, pp. 756-57.

3 American State Papers II, #246, p. 538.

4 The very old milling machine from the Whitney Armory that has survived and was long thought to have been made by the elder Eli Whitney, is now deemed by historians of technology to date from somewhat after his death. See discussion of "Middle Armory Period".

5 Letter, Eli Whitney to Oliver Wolcott, i May 1798, Eli Whitney Collection, YUA.

6 Letter, Philos Blake to Betsy Blake, 7 September 1801 (Original spelling), Eli Whitney Collection, YUA.

7 Timothy Dwight, Travels in AVi/> England and New York, (New Haven, 1821), vol. II, Letter I, describing a trip begun September 20, 1803.

8 Two nearly identical versions of this inventory exist in the Eli Whitney Collection.

9 Letter, Eli Whitney to Oliver Wolcott, i May 1798, Eli Whitney Collection, YUA.

10 Letter, Eli Whitney to Irving, 14 November 1807. Eli Whitney Collection, YUA.

11 Account book, p. 122, lx)X 9, folder 0163. Eli Whitney Collection, YUA.

12 Robert Woodbury, 'The Legend of Eli Whitney and Interchangeable Parts, Technology and Culture \ (1960), p. 249.

13 Colonel John Whiting, report on Springfield Armory, 31 December 1809, in James E. Hicks, United Slates Ordnance (Mount Vernon, N.Y., 1940), vol. 2, p. 131.

14 Edwin Battison, "Eli Whitney and (he Milling Ma-ch'mc," Smithsonian Journal <>JHistoiy i (1966), p. 23.

15 I hid., p. 32.

16 Denison Olmsted, "Memoir of the Life of Eli Whitney,"
American Journal of Science and Arts XXI #2(1 832), P- 43-

17 Ibid., p. 43.

18 E.G. Parkhurst, "Manufacture by the System (^"Interchangeable Vans," American Machinist 24 (3 January, P-39-

19 Benjamin Silliman, "Reminiscences of the late Mr. Whitney," American Journal of Science and Arts XXI #2 (1832), pp. 55-56.

20 Joseph W. Roe, "History of the First Milling Machine, American Machinist (27 June 1912), pp. 1037-38.

22 Edwin Battison, "A New Look at the 'Whitney' Milling Machine," Technology and Culture 14 (1973), p. 597-

23 James Carrington, report, 1827, quoted in Merritt Roe Smith, "John H. Hall, Simeon North, and the Milling Machine: The Nature of Innovation among Antebellum Arms Makers," Technology and Culture 14

24 Ibid., p. 582

25 Charles H. Fitch, 'The Rise of a Mechanical Ideal," Magazine of American History (June 1884)15 16-27.

26 Letterbook, box 6, folder o i 72, Eli Whitney Collection, YUA.

27 Letter, Eli Whitney, Jr. to Thomas Blanchai d, 20 December 1842, Eli Whitney Collection, YUA.

28 Letter, Eli Whitney, Jr. to Samuel Colt, 25 December 1846, Eli Whitney Collection, YUA.

29 Samuel Colt to William L. Marcy, 6 July 1847, in John E. Parsons, ed., Sam Coil's Gum Record (Hartford: Connecticut Historical Society, 1949).

30 Robert A. Howard, "Interchangeable Parts Reexain-inecl: The Private Sector of the American Arms In-clustry on the Eve of the Civil War," Technology and Culture 19 (1978), pp. 633-49.

31 Norm Flayderman. I-'la\dei man's Cuide to Antique A mer-ican Firearms (Northlield, III.: D.B.I. Books, 1977), P- ^7-

32 Robert S. Woodbury, History of the Milling Machine (Cambridge, Mass.: M.I. I". Press, 1960), pp. 35-36.

33 Business diary entries, September 1854, 22 December 1855, 22 February 1860, box 1 1, folder 0173. Eli Whitney Collection, YUA.

34 Flayderman, o{>. cit.. p. 23 1 .

35 Benjamin Silliman. "Reminiscences of the late Mr. Whitney," American Join rial of Science and Arts, Vol. XXI (1832), p. 57.

36 Robert B. Gordon, "Materials for Manufacturing: