Cotton as a service, if you will. The gin could do about 55 pounds a day, so one simple machine and one or two people could do the work of at least 55 people. The gin made cotton profitable which ...

The invention of the cotton engine (also known as the cotton gin) by Eli Whitney is perhaps one of the most tangible outcomes of the American industrialization spirit of the 18th century 1.

"By embedding them in the cotton gin waste, these materials acquire antimicrobial properties." Nam said the researchers used a simple heat treatment of cotton gin waste materials in water ...

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.

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 ...