In the late 18th century, a young Massachusetts farm boy named Eli Whitney unknowingly .....turning point in American agriculture. At just 12 ...

Anyway, Eli Whitney certainly doesn’t deserve all the credit for the cotton gin. According to the University of Houston’s College of Engineering, Whitney got the idea from a slave known to ...

A Florida newspaper’s 1994 bullet-point list of “How Black Americans Helped Shape the Sunshine State,” for example, has one entry that reads “1793: Eli Whitney’s cotton gin leads to ...

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.

This is an undated sketch of American inventor Eli Whitney. Whitney invented the cotton-gin, which separated the cotton fiber from the seeds. It was patented in 1794. (AP Photo) ...

By contrast, Whitney’s cotton gin mechanically separated seeds from fiber, making the process efficient and cheap. The implications for the South, which had both the abundant land and the warm ...

Human ingenuity often has a ripple effect on our lives and our politics, and a perfect example is Eli Whitney's ingenious invention, the cotton "engine" (subsequently shortened to "gin"), which ...

Eli Whitney's cotton gin 1794: Resource Bank Contents: 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 ...