The correct answer is 1) both of their inventions contributed to the rise of the U.S. textile industry.
What inventors Eli Whitney and Francis Cabot Lowell have in common is that both of their inventions contributed to the rise of the U.S. textile industry.
Bostonian merchant Francis Cabot Lowell traveled through England to learn more about the power loom machine and he brought some ideas by memory to implement them in America and help to improve the textile production in the United States. This was around the 1810s. He opened the first power mill in 1814, in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Eli Whitney was the inventor of the cotton gin, improving the production of cotton in the southern plantations of the United States. Both men contributed to the rise of the U.S. textile industry.
