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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

relates to a machine designed to be attached to or connected with the flue of a cotton gin for the purpose of cleansing the cotton, or separating the dirt from it and condensing it, so as to ...

SEBASTIAN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A fire broke out near a cotton gin in Sebastian, authorities say. The blast is believed to be caused by a tank, according to Frank Torres, with Willacy County ...

You’re buying a gin for its ability to bolster a martini, not for the label. If you do buy a bottle for the packaging, it often is uninspired in taste. Recently, a new crop of gins have leaned ...

However, one invention from a Westborough native stands apart from the rest and is argued by some historians to be one of the critical unintended causes of the American Civil War: the cotton gin.