According to the Texas Cotton Gin Museum in the southeast Texas town of Burton, Dallas County had 78 cotton gins in the 1930s, including six within Dallas’ city limits.(Jae S. Lee / Staff Photographer ...

From Eli Whitney’s cotton gin to Ted Benna’s 401(k), these pioneers came up with ideas and innovations that still resonate ...

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 on ...

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 solved ...

Cotton and the gin to 1600 -- The roller gin in the Americas, 1607-1790 -- The invention of the saw gin, 1790-1810 -- The transition from the roller to the saw gin, 1796-1830 -- The saw gin industry, ...

Despite passionate opposition against slavery and the gradual outlawing of this evil, the Deep South's world-supplying cotton industry and Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin ushered a ...

PRATTVILLE, Ala. (AP) - A little bit of Prattville history has made it back home. Auburn University has donated a cotton gin bought from Continental Eagle Co. in 1923. The machine was used by students ...

Why is Whitney So Important? Next on our list of Top Ten Patent Wars is not the one that most patent historians think of, the so-called “Sewing Machine” Wars of the 1850s-1860s, which is intriguing ...

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