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Eli Whitney Jr. (December 8, 1765 – January 8, 1825) was an American inventor, widely known for inventing the cotton gin in 1793, one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution that shaped the economy of the Antebellum South.
A model of a 19th-century cotton gin on display at the Eli Whitney Museum in Hamden, Connecticut. A cotton gin—meaning "cotton engine" [1] [2] —is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation. [3]
Mulberry Grove Plantation, located north of Port Wentworth, Chatham County, Savannah, was a rice plantation, notable as the location where Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. [2] Once a thriving plantation, comprising, in 1798, some
In 1793, Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin and later received a patent on March 14, 1794. [31] Whitney's cotton gin could have possibly ignited a revolution in the cotton industry and the rise of "King Cotton" as the main cash crop in the South. However, it never made him rich.
Drawing of Eli Whitney's cotton gin, circa 1795, original drawing by the United States Patent Office, courtesy of Textile Industry History. Greene met a young man named Eli Whitney, who tutored her neighbor's children, [42] but soon lost interest in that occupation. He preferred to study law. [1]
Not the biggest but still a great "F**k you" was delivered by Eli Whitney, the inventor of the cotton gin. His invention was copied all over the South and 20 years of lawsuits all failed in the ...
1793: Eli Whitney invents the modern cotton gin. 1795: Joseph Bramah invents the hydraulic press. 1796: Alois Senefelder invents the lithography printing technique. [403] 1797: Samuel Bentham invents plywood. 1799: George Medhurst invents the first motorized air compressor. 1799: The first paper machine is invented by Louis-Nicolas Robert.
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