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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 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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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The invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney made it possible to produce this crop at a much more productive rate. A history on its invention and its impact upon industry and society. ... The cotton gin, invented in the latter part of seventeen ninety-three by Eli Whitney.
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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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