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 ...

And for people of African descent, the cotton gin was not progress. It was a further entrenchment of enslavement. And for African Americans, the Industrial Revolution, those technological advances ...

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 ...

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Along with the Slater Mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island—considered the home of the Industrial Revolution in America—the cotton ...

Before the Industrial Revolution, making textiles was a slow ... A photograph from 1910 showing child labour in cotton mills in Georgia, USA. Children were a cheap source of labour in textile ...

Students (grades 5 - 8) "become" a boll of cotton. After researching U. S. geography and history from the earliest days of the American Industrial Revolution up to the Civil War, they relate ...

An exhibition at the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens explores how Western intellectuals viewed the climate crisis between 1780 and 1930 Anne Wallentine Caught between steel ...

The foundations of the modern world were laid by one major event—the industrial revolution. A profusion of new technologies and manufacturing processes, accompanied by innovations in finance and ...

From the spinning jenny and cotton gin during the Industrial Revolution to more modern advancements in technology like online ...