The gin — short for engine — had tiny hooks that would pull cotton fibers or lint through a mesh. The seeds couldn’t make it through. By changing the machine from one that removes seeds to ...

After his death, Eli Whitney was described as "one of the most distinguished men who our country as produced." ...

The gin solved the problem inherent in marketing ... his invention was faster and more efficient than "any other Cotton Ginn or Machine heretofore known or used for that purpose." ...

Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin, which easily separated cotton fiber from its seeds, was merely a motor for a global economic machine. Slavery was its fuel. Many stakeholders ...

relates to a machine designed to be attached to or connected with the flue of a cotton gin for the purpose of cleansing the cotton, or separating the dirt from it and condensing it, so as to ...

The Hutchinson News reports that the southern Kansas cotton gin formerly known as High Plains Cotton could see its second biggest ginning year. Its first was in 2007, when it ginned 24,000 bales.

"They were complaining about how long it took, and he thought, 'I can make a machine, a gin, to fix this.'" In 1794, the cotton gin was officially created, which made harvesting cotton easier and ...