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 ...

His parents failed to provide him with enough money to support his education as a young man. Whitney created an improved mechanical cotton gin in 1793, patented it in 1794, and it spread throughout ...

The development of the cotton gin — patented in 1794 — involves ... but the British were eating away that market with indigo created in its colonies. Rice requires a lot of water and swamp ...

Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin, which easily separated cotton ... They were sold off in droves. This created a Second Middle Passage, the second largest forced migration in America ...

U.S. inventors gave the world the cotton gin, the telegraph, the phonograph, the movie camera, the light bulb, the artificial ...

Sugar's cheapness in the 18th century was made possible by slave labour. In 1793 Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin which enabled cotton to be processed on a large scale (by separating the lint ...

The true history of the lynching that begat the Civil Rights Movement began with the Mississippi gubernatorial election that ...

But the Bramble, a gin cocktail created in 1984 at London's Fred's Club, stood out as a beacon of light in an otherwise ...

I consumed them in local bars, where professional bartenders created new (and wildly unconventional) gin concoctions. I took small, neat sips at industry events and formal tastings. All of that ...

flame-retardant cotton fabric had yet to be invented. Activities like smoking in bed with cotton sheets could be deadly. Many people suffered severe burns and some even died as a result.