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 ...

In 1794, Eli Whitney patented a new kind of cotton gin. His invention, using rotating brushes and teeth to remove the seeds from cotton, was quickly pirated by others. Southern plantation owners ...

1793: Eli Whitney applies to patent his new invention: a machine that quickly separates cotton seeds from cotton fibers. The cotton gin was the little engine that could — and did — transform ...

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 ...