A North Carolina mother says her middle school student was asked to pick cotton during a lesson about the Industrial ...

The Bluff Line Railroad, established in the 1890s, faced natural disasters and ceased operations in 1930.

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” ...

In 1794, Eli Whitney was granted a patent for the cotton gin. In 1812, the U.S. government authorized the issue of America's ...

This is the most probable date when Black explorer Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable begins building the settlement, which would eventually become the city of Chicago, Ill. The Haitian-born (c 1745) du ...

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 ...

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 ...

In recent years, whiteflies and pink bollworms have wreaked havoc on the cotton crop in North India. Cotton yields are down, as is the area under cotton cultivation — the crop was cultivated in only ...

Pratt & Whitney is planning further development of rotating detonation engine (RDE) technology following “positive test results” from a series of ground tests. The work, which was completed ...