click image for close-up In October of 1793, Eli Whitney sent a drawing of his new invention, the cotton gin, to Secretary of ... your patent may be made out & delivered to your order immediately." ...

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

The invention of the cotton engine (also known as the cotton gin) by Eli Whitney is perhaps ... Nanotube concentrations of over 2% in the applied emulsion made it more difficult for the cloth ...

Cotton as a service, if you will. The gin could do about 55 pounds a day, so one simple machine and one or two people could do the work of at least 55 people. The gin made cotton profitable which ...

What made cotton so desirable ... Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin, which easily separated cotton fiber from its seeds, was merely a motor for a global economic machine.

In 1794, the cotton gin was officially created, which made harvesting cotton easier and much faster. Whitney believed the gin would eliminate the need for slave labor, but instead the invention ...