Cotton gin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A cotton gin (short for cotton engine ) is a machine that quickly and easily separates the cotton fibers from the seeds, a job previously done by hand. These seeds are either used again to grow mo...
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Eli Whitney Patents His Cotton Gin ... Within months he created the cotton gin. A small gin could be hand-cranked; larger versions could be harnessed to a horse or driven by water power. "One man and a horse will do more than fifty men with the old machines," wrote Whitney to his father.
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cotton gin, machine for separating cotton fibers from the seeds. The charkha, used in India from antiquity, consists of two revolving wooden rollers through which the fibers are drawn, leaving the seeds. A similar gin was early used in the S United States for long-staple cotton.
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Teaching With Documents: Eli Whitney's Patent for the Cotton Gin ... Eli Whitney Patents His Cotton Gin ... The Effects of the Cotton Gin...
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In October of 1793, Eli Whitney sent a drawing of his new invention, the cotton gin, to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson in application for a patent. ... Related Entries: • Cotton gin petition; • The Cotton Press; • Charles Ball's narrative: Fifty Years in Chains; • Douglas Egerton on cotton;
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Short profile and sketch. ... ; Eli Whitney ; Born Dec 8 1765 - Died Jan 8 1825 ; Cotton Gin; Cotton Gin; Patent Number(s) Patented March 14, 1794; Inducted 1974; American inventor, pioneer, mechanical engineer, and manufacturer Eli Whitney is best remembered as the inventor of the cotton gin.
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He invented a cotton gin that was popular in the South. The South became the cotton producing part of the country because Whitney’s cotton gin was able to successfully pull out the seeds from the cotton bolls.
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This illustration by William L. Sheppard from the December 18th, 1869 issue of Harper's Weekly depicts the first cotton gin with black slaves operating the gin while white landowners discuss the new invention in the background.
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