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 ...

After his death, Eli Whitney was described as "one of the most distinguished men who our country as produced." ...

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 ...

In the 1970s Westborough High School students redesigned the town's seal as a contest and added a drawing of a cotton gin. But in 2020, the Westborough Town Council began debating whether the gin ...