The following inventions are among the most useful improvements lately patented:— COTTON CLEANETt. Tliis invention (by Benjamin Jackman, of Louisville, Ky.) relates to a machine designed to be ...

Cotton is already a water-intensive crop ... extreme weather events and helping to preserve our food supply. Afara's invention is one of many incredible agricultural developments that are helping ...

At the same time, the textile industry in Great Britain was exploding, creating enormous international demand for cotton clothing. Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin, which easily ...

this hope died with the invention of the cotton gin in 1793. With the gin (short for engine), raw cotton could be quickly cleaned; Suddenly cotton became a profitable crop, transforming the ...

In 1879, physicist Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany. In 1883, German political philosopher Karl Marx died in London at age 64. In 1885, the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera “The Mikado” ...

Eli Whitney’s cotton gin was not as instrumental in pushing the United States to Civil War as many believe, a history ...