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 ...

Engineer Eli Whitney died 35 years before the Civil War, but his most famous invention, the cotton gin, set the economic stage for war. Whitney's gin made cotton production far more efficient ...

A popular American restaurant in town will be closed for at least the next couple of days, and possibly longer, the business announced on social media. In a Facebook post, Eli's on Whitney said its ...