By changing the machine from one that removes seeds to one that removes cotton, the design was very simple. An 1883 article in the North American Review claimed that Mrs. Greene had made some ...

The development of the cotton gin — patented in 1794 — involves an interesting lesson about solving engineering problems. Farmers in the southern United States had a big problem.

The gin solved the problem inherent in marketing short-staple cotton, which grew easily in warm climates -- the tedious and time consuming task of separating the seeds from the fiber.

Object Details Author Lakwete, Angela 1949-Contents 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 ...

Two machines have been discovered in Alabama that were built by an inventor who Mullins said has become a footnote to history: John McBride. McBride developed cotton gin spinners and gin carders ...

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, ... Whitney’s Cotton Gin Invention.

The cotton gin history is at least as muddled. By the time Whitney won his patent in 1794, any number of machines had been built on cotton farms to separate the fibers from the seed — by blacks ...

Whitney was i partnership with one Durkee, and set up hi first cotton gin there. The gin-house wa grated so that visitors might see the cotto ginned from the outside. None but female were allowed ...

There’s a new sign on the cotton gin located just south of Kingstree. Humphrey Coker Seed Company owners D. Brown and Keith Gill purchased the Tri-Cotton and Gin facility in New name for local ...

That it is entirely new and constructed in a different manner and upon different principles from any, other Cotton Gin or Machine heretofore known or used for that purpose. 2d.