This famous invention has a complex history. Eli Whitney had just graduated from Yale University in 1792, when he accepted a ...
In 1793, Eli Whitney came up with the idea for a machine that would separate the sticky green seeds from the fluffy white ...
On this day in 1765, Eli Whitney was born in Massachusetts. In 1792 he left New England and headed to Georgia to work as a tutor. Within months of arriving, he invented the cotton gin, a machine that ...
In pre-Civil War Tennessee and Alabama, slaves used wooden ginning machines to turn cotton into clothing, according to Tony Mullins of Louisiana, who collects the devices shown in the accompanying ...
From Eli Whitney’s cotton gin to Ted Benna’s 401(k), these pioneers came up with ideas and innovations that still resonate ...
PRATTVILLE, Ala. (AP) - A little bit of Prattville history has made it back home. Auburn University has donated a cotton gin bought from Continental Eagle Co. in 1923. The machine was used by students ...
According to the Texas Cotton Gin Museum in the southeast Texas town of Burton, Dallas County had 78 cotton gins in the 1930s, including six within Dallas’ city limits.(Jae S. Lee / Staff Photographer ...
A man in Rosebud got stuck in a cotton gin machine and died before deputies arrived, Falls County Sheriff said. An investigation is ongoing. Getty Images/iStockphoto A man died following an incident ...
On this day in 1765, Eli Whitney was born in Massachusetts. In 1792 he left New England and headed to Georgia to work as a tutor. Within months of arriving, he invented the cotton gin, a machine that ...
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