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 ...

In 1811, Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin for separating cotton fibers from seeds. This device was built in 1793 and helped cotton become a profitable export crop in the southern United States, as ...

In 1793, he perfected the cotton gin, which could remove the seeds from ... Whitney didn't make a lot of money off the invention, but it did make him famous and make cotton incredibly profitable.

On a modern agritourism farm framed by traditional fields of cotton and corn, the seven Future Farmers of America chapters in ...

The gin made cotton profitable which was a boon to the ... although he did make some and became famous for his labor-saving invention. He would go on to pioneer the use of interchangeable parts ...

U.S. inventors gave the world the cotton gin, the telegraph, the phonograph ... and some have been just as influential on our ...

There has been a long debate in historical literature on Catherine Greene’s role in the invention of the cotton gin. Three scenarios have been proposed: first, that Greene, not Whitney, was the true ...

Maybe he was being dramatic, pretentious, difficult. Maybe he should just calm down and do an oral report on someone like Paul Revere, or Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin. "No!" Lance shouted ...

which was built on the production of cotton textiles and the invention of the cotton gin, turned slave-based cotton agriculture into a roaring inferno of profitability. And profitability ...

It was generally understood that the Pink Tea Squad, white cotton gloves and all ... "Ha," said my little publicity inventor, listening a split second to the sweating, howling cheering crowd ...

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 ...