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.

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

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 ...

SEBASTIAN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A fire broke out near a cotton gin in Sebastian, authorities say. The blast is believed to be caused by a tank, according to Frank Torres, with Willacy County ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

However, one invention from a Westborough native stands apart from the rest and is argued by some historians to be one of the critical unintended causes of the American Civil War: the cotton gin.