If you went to elementary school in the United States, you no doubt learned about Eli Whitney’s cotton gin as an example of how the industrial revolution took previously manual processes and ...

Cotton producers who waited to harvest the crop until November are encountering several delays.Growers are dealing with ...

On June 20, 1793, Eli Whitney, who had graduated from Yale the previous year, wrote to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, requesting a patent for his new invention, the cotton gin. The gin ...

With the gin (short for engine), raw cotton could be quickly cleaned; Suddenly cotton became a profitable crop, transforming the southern economy and changing the dynamics of slavery. The first ...

relates to a machine designed to be attached to or connected with the flue of a cotton gin for the purpose of cleansing the cotton, or separating the dirt from it and condensing it, so as to ...