Cotton gin

The Cotton Gin revolutionized the cotton industry in America during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. The Cotton gin sped up the extraction of cotton seeds from the fiber to such and extent that it could replace the work of fifty men or women doing the same work. This led to the cotton industry ... Read more

Whitney’s cotton gin had a permanent influence on America’s slavery. With-out a cotton-gin a slave could seperate only 1 pound of cotton a day. With the cotton-gin, a slave could seperate a thousand pounds.

Cotton Gin, South Carolina - Museum

Learn about the traceability journey U.S. cotton takes, from farm to mill, through the cotton harvesting and ginning process.

When Eli Whitney left New England and headed South in 1792, he had no idea that he would invent a machine that would change the history of America. After the invention of cotton gin the production of raw cotton doubled every decade and the demand was increasing by the other inventions of the industrial revolution...

CAUSES 1. With Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin in 1793, cotton became very profitable. His machine quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation. The fibers are processed into clothing or other cotton goods, and any undamaged seeds may be used to grow more cotton or to produce cottonseed oil and meal.

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A cotton ginning is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton

Eli Whitney was born in Westborough, Massachusetts

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