WALB on MSN3 天
39 fire personnel battling large fire at cotton gin in Thomas County
The fire is at Four Corners Gin in the 100 block of Midway Church Road, according to Thomas County Deputy EMA Director Lisa ...
39 fire personnel tamed large fire at cotton gin in Thomas County
The fire was at Four Corners Gin in the 100 block of Midway Church Road, according to Thomas County Deputy EMA Director Lisa ...
Hackaday5 年
Turning A Problem Around: The Whitney 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 ...
PBS8 年
Eli Whitney's cotton gin
click image for close-up In October of 1793, Eli Whitney sent a drawing of his new invention, the cotton gin, to Secretary ... to construct a full-size working machine, based on his original ...
ABC Kcrg 97 天
Parent upset after she says teacher had students pick cotton during history lesson
The assignment this week was reportedly intended to teach seventh-grade social studies students at Porter Ridge Middle School about the 18th-century cotton gin and its impact during the Industrial ...
PBS8 年
Cotton gin petition
The gin solved the problem inherent in marketing short-staple cotton, which grew easily in ... of Philadelphia and to delays in preparing a working model. Although his initial design was for ...