Cotton Gin
Patent Number(s) Patented March 14, 1794
Inducted 1974
American inventor, pioneer, mechanical engineer, and manufacturer
Eli Whitney is best remembered as the inventor of the cotton gin. ... Whitney
saw that a machine to clean the seed from cotton could make the
South prosperous and make its inventor rich. ...
Whitneys gin brought the South prosperity, but the unwillingness of
the planters to pay for its use and the ease with which the gin could
be pirated put Whitneys company out of business by 1797. ... His genius as
expressed in tools, machines, and technological ideas made the
southern United States dominant in cotton production and the
northern states a bastion of industry.
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