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 ...

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. Slavery was its fuel. Many stakeholders ...

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 ...

The Hutchinson News reports that the southern Kansas cotton gin formerly known as High Plains Cotton could see its second biggest ginning year. Its first was in 2007, when it ginned 24,000 bales.

Cotton ginners have been working through the off-season to make sure they’re ready to get the cotton rolling. Jerry Butman, ...

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.

The Adobe Walls Gin in Spearman, Tx ... “Some of those places [where growers are] planting cotton and have not before, we don’t know what those yields are going to be,” said Ashley Arrington ...

As cotton industry experts showcase important technology and ideas, this trade show is here to make a positive impact. “Cotton gin plants, we’re trying to learn how to become more efficient, right?,” ...

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 ...