{
  "name": "Whitney's 1798 musket contract: terms and deliveries by Olmsted's account",
  "desc": "The terms of Eli Whitney's 1798 musket contract and the deliveries, as his 1846 biographer gives them, one figure per row; the total and the day count are checked by this site.",
  "lic": "CC BY 4.0",
  "lic_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "by": "Treaties & Tradeoffs",
  "url": "https://treatiesandtradeoffs.com/ideas/interchangeable-parts/",
  "from": [
    "Denison Olmsted, Memoir of Eli Whitney (1846), pp. 47–49"
  ],
  "how": "Compiled by Treaties & Tradeoffs from the data listed",
  "data_by": [
    "Denison Olmsted, Memoir of Eli Whitney, Esq. (New Haven: Durrie & Peck, 1846), pp. 47–49, accessed 2026-11-02, public domain; total and day count checked by this site"
  ]
}