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.

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...

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Invented by Eli Whitney, the cotton gin is a machine that quickly separates the cotton from the seeds.

Eli Whitney was born in Westborough, Massachusetts