A young inventer named Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in April 1793. He was a tutor at a Georgia plantation,Whitney over heard the planters discussing the problem of seperating the cotton from the seeds imbedded in the cotton ball. They told him how they would cut there hands on the seeds all the time. unlike Upland cotton which could be grown overmuch of the south, but it was extremely difficult to clean. Sea Island cotton was easier to clean (remove seeds), but it grew only along the coast.
Whitneys machine was called a cotton gin. It was a box with a hand-cranked cylinder that fed the cotton through narrow slots, wide enough for the cotton to come through, but too small for the seeds to come through. The seeds would drop to the bottom and out of the way. With this machine what had taken months to do before with one person could be done in one day.
Combined with the recent opening of the first cotton mill (business that turned raw cotton into useable thread and cloth) in the United States,the cotton gin led to an explosion in the production of and demand for cotton. In 1972, the United States produced 10,000 bales of cotton. In 1825, the cotton states produced 533,000 bales of cotton. Cotton plantations began to pop up from the coast of Georgia to Mississippi. Then the price of the slaves increased because of there high demand.It bacame clear that it was going to take a long time for the south to give up slavory.
This may even seem more beneficial than cotton to some. ... Cotton is in fact a plant that grows wild in many places on the earth. ... Whitney patented the cotton gin in 1793. ... Cotton is indeed the predominant textile used worldwide to make today's garments. ... Cotton or Nylon. ...
The economy at the time in the south was dying because not enough cotton could be picked up fast enough to profit. ... It happened so that a Negro man by the name of Eli Whitney invented a machine called the Cotton Gin. This allowed the seeds of a piece of cotton to be removed from faster and safer. ... To a slave owner "Cotton was King", the gin was his throne, and the black bondsmen were his henchmen." ... The invention of the cotton gin made farmers buy more land and this meant that they needed to get more slaves to produce more cotton. ...
Whitney, a man of great perseverance and a victim of unfortunate circumstances, is best remembered as the inventor of the cotton gin. ... The gin had spiked teeth mounted on a boxed revolving cylinder which, when turned by a crank, pulled the cotton fiber through small slotted openings to separate the seeds from the lint. ... The cotton gin allowed the seeds to be removed mechanically and rapidly, and eventually led cotton to become the cheapest and most widely used textile fabric in the world. ... Whitney and Miller really didn't know how wealthy they could become from such and enterpr...
Cotton was a substantial cash crop in the South. However, the ability to grow the cotton was limited due to the two types: long staple and short staple cotton. ... In 1793, a man by the name of Eli Whitney built a machine that revolutionized cotton picking in the Southern states: the cotton gin. This device separated the cotton and the seeds with ease. Thus, the expansion of cotton growth throughout the South ensued. ...
Upon examination of the late 18th-19th centuries in America it becomes apparent that the invention of the cotton gin, the steamboat, and the canal were all major technological developments which affected American industry almost as much as the factory system and mass production. Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin in 1793 made the widespread cultivation of cotton possible, which transformed the South and fed the world's cotton factories for decades. ... With a cotton gin a slave could clean 50 times as much cotton as by hand. ... Rival manufacturers pirated their work and cou...
Before the invention of the cotton gin, cotton fiber was literally picked apart from the seeds by hand. ... The invention of the Cotton Gin, by Eli Whitney, in 1793 was a marvelous innovation that dramatically increased the supply of cotton fiber. ... The cotton gin allowed one man to do the work of fifty. ... The gins later became horse-drawn and water-powered gins and cotton production increased, along with lowered costs. ... In 1794, Whitney obtained a patent for his cotton gin (Foner, 1150). ...
The cotton gin was a device designed for the purpose of removing the seeds from raw cotton. ... The use of the cotton gin made it feasible to process the cotton crop much more quickly and much more economically. ... In 1793, before the cotton gin, some 187,600 pounds of cotton was harvested in the United States. ... Thus he created the cotton gin. ... The cotton gin created a market for slavery. ...
That invention was the cotton engine which was more commonly known as the cotton gin. When the cotton gin was first invented it had one intention, to help farmers pick the cotton seeds out of the cotton more easily. ... There were not really any direct innovations as a result of the cotton gin, but rather there were inventions that helped make the cotton gin more efficient. ... But because the cotton gin was invented there would now be a need for them. ... All of this happened because of the cotton gin and its efficiency. ...
Some of the outcomes of these inventions, like the spinning jenny and the cotton gin, helped people of that time and made their life easier. ... With the new mills cam the demand for cotton to spin into thread, therefore leading into the cotton gin. The cotton gin was a machine that "cleaned" cotton by removing the seeds. ... So in 1793 Whitney Invented the cotton gin that did the slaves jobs for them. ... If Eli Whitney had not come along and invented the cotton gin, slavery may have just ended right then and we would not have had to fight the civil war. ...
