Cotton Gin’s Contribution Eli Whitney was born in Westboro‚ Massachusetts on December 8‚ 1765. As a young boy he enjoyed taking things apart and then putting them back together. When he was young‚ he worked in a plantation in Georgia‚ tutoring children. He noticed slaves had trouble taking the seeds out of the cotton boll. He then had an idea for a device that could help out both slaves and plantation owners. The invention of the cotton gin‚ by Eli‚ had many big impacts in the south‚ on slavery
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Savannah Georgia. He watched cotton being cleaned; a very long and time consuming process to do by hand. Watching the cotton being cleaned an idea came to Whitney. He decided he would build a machine that would clean cotton faster than it could be done by hand. Thus‚ he created the cotton gin. This invention changed the way the South functioned‚ and the ripple effect it created changed the course of history forever. The ripple effect caused by Eli Whitney’s cotton gin can be seen as the driving
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September 2014 Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in the late 1800’s. Its original purpose was to help people separate cotton fibers from their seeds. This process was necessary in order to use the cotton in its proper way. This invention came at a time when slavery was starting to slowly become less crucial to the nation’s economy and freeing slaves was gaining momentum. The cotton gin soiled all plans of reducing slavery by increasing production of cotton and completely revamping slavery in the
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of the cotton gin‚ the surrender of raw cotton doubled each decade after 1800. Demand for cotton was fueled by other inventions of the Industrial Revolution‚ such as the machines to spin and weave it and the steamboat to transport it. At mid century the South provided three-fifths of America’s exports‚ most of it in cotton. The cotton gin gave birth to the American mass-production concept and brought the South prosperity‚ but still contributed to the growth of slavery. While the cotton gin reduced
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Circus Candy Inspires a Medical Miracle Talk about sweet science; medical researchers are building artificial body parts using (believe it or not) cotton candy. If you’ve ever eaten it‚ you know how tangled (and sticky!) cotton candy can be. Those traits come via some surprising science. Cotton candy is made from almost pure sugar. Inside a cotton candy machine‚ that sugar is first melted into a liquid‚ and then fed into a strainer covered with very tiny holes. As the strainer spins‚ the liquid
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Agricultural Invention: compound bow‚ riding saddle‚ and the cotton gin Agriculture has many things to do with inventions. Now you might think that inventions only consist of science and technology. Even though this is true‚ science and technology are involved in agriculture too‚ but the invention themselves is related to agriculture by its purpose or how it is used and by whom. For example‚ the compound bow. It is used for hunting and to bring in a “harvest” of game for food. That is agriculture
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Cotton Fibers Name: Maya Abou Ajram Subject: Design Material 2 Year: Fall 2014-2015 Introduction Cotton is a soft staple fiber that grown in a form known as a boll around the seeds of the cotton plant‚ a shrub native to tropical and subtropical regions. Cotton fibers are mainly made up of cellulose. Under natural conditions‚ the cotton bolls will tend to increase the dispersion of the seeds. The cotton fibers are attached to the seeds inside the boll of the plant. There are usually six or seven seeds
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