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 ...

Whitney was i partnership with one Durkee, and set up hi first cotton gin there. The gin-house wa grated so that visitors might see the cotto ginned from the outside. None but female were allowed ...

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

Eli Whitney has planted the seed of the American cotton industry's industrial revolution by engineering the cotton gin! Which would revolutionize cotton production and create less of a need for ...

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 ...

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” ...

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 ...