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. Jefferson replied ...

Eli Whitney does not own slaves according to any historical evidence. His parents failed to provide him with enough money to support his education as a young man. Whitney created an improved ...

If you went to elementary school in the United States, you no doubt learned about Eli Whitney ... The gin made cotton profitable which was a boon to the south, but did manage to keep slavery ...

On June 20, 1793, Eli Whitney, who had graduated from Yale the previous year, wrote to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, requesting a patent for his new invention, the cotton gin. The gin ...

cotton fibres were effectively cleaned. Where a slave picked clean one pound of lint a day, Eli Whitney’s gin cleaned 50 pounds a day. But the problem of mechanically picking cotton from bushes ...

Today marks Eli ... Whitney and Miller agreed to figure out a way to make cleaning cotton more efficient. According to biography.com, after a winter of work, Whitney presented the cotton gin ...

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 ...