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On this day in 1793, young inventor Eli Whitney had his U.S. patent for the cotton gin approved, an invention that would definitely have an impact on social and economic conditions that led to the ...
The cotton gin history is at least as muddled. By the time Whitney won his patent in 1794, any number of machines had been built on cotton farms to separate the fibers from the seed — by blacks ...
Instead, a more relevant patent war actually took place about 50 years earlier, when Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. ... Your first step to building a free, personalized, ...
Bowling Green Plantation, Wilkinson County, Mississippi, 1795. Eli Whitney has planted the seed of the American cotton industry's industrial revolution by engineering the cotton gin! Which would ...
This gin was exhibited at the World's Fair, in London, where it was commended, and adopted as best calculated to promote the growth of cotton in India, Egypt, Turkey, Italy and Brazil.
The transatlantic slave trade was outlawed in 1808 and slavery was in decline before Eli Whitney invented the labor-saving gin to separate white cotton fibers from seeds.