click image for close-up 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. Jefferson replied ...

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 ...

Eli Whitney does not own slaves according to any historical evidence. His parents failed to provide him with enough money to support his education as a young man. Whitney created an improved ...

Engineer Eli Whitney died 35 years before the Civil War, but his most famous invention, the cotton gin, set the economic stage for war. Whitney's gin made cotton production far more efficient ...

Instead, a more relevant patent war actually took place about 50 years earlier, when Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. At least, through one lens it is more important because Whitney’s ...

The invention of the cotton engine (also known as the cotton gin) by Eli Whitney is perhaps one of the most tangible outcomes of the American industrialization spirit of the 18th century 1.

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 ...

Processing cotton was difficult work, which Eli Whitney's cotton gin sought to fix. After picking the bolls, the machine ...

Poor Eli Whitney. All he wanted to do was invent a machine to make farm work a little easier. And he did, too. His cotton gin ...

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