Eli Whitney and his business partner, Phineas Miller, after problems with Georgia farmers making their own versions of the cotton gin, they sold their patent rights to the state of South Carolina in 1802. They also offered the patent rights to North Carolina and Tennessee, but South Carolina was the only state to pay Eli Whitney for the rights. Even then, South Carolina delayed paying the fee.
The cotton gin
Best known for inventing the cotton gin, patent X72 dated March 1794
He invented the first mechanical Cotton Gin in 1797 and applied for a patent in 1798. The patent was granted in 1807.
Eli Whitney first invented the cotton gin.
You would think that since there aren't as many hands needed to separate cotton, there would be a decrease in slavery. However, plantation owners only grew more cotton which needed more slaves to pick, then needed even more slaves to operate the cotton gin. In fact, after the invention of the cotton gin, slavery soon quadrupled.
The cotton gin
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eli whitneys cotton gin
The cotton gin was created in America in 1793 by Eli Whitney. He received a patent for the cotton gin in 1794.
Eli Whitney is credited with inventing the cotton gin in 1793.
Best known for inventing the cotton gin, patent X72 dated March 1794
The cotton gin was a machine for removing seeds from cotton fibres prior to spinning. Gin is a corruption of 'engine'. Eli Whitney was granted the first patent in 1794.
Eli Whitney did not create the first cotton gin, the first cotton gin known to man is the single roller cotton gin, which was first used around 800 A.D.
The inventor of the cotton gin was Eli Whitney
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