A cotton gin—meaning "cotton engine"—is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity...

Texas Cotton Gin Museum, which is located at the Burton Farmers Gin. The gin was built in 1914 and is considered to be the oldest working cotton gin in the...

Cotton Gin Port is a ghost town in Monroe County, Mississippi, United States. Cotton Gin Port was located at 33°58′15″N 88°32′35″W / 33.97083°N 88.54306°W...

Peru. Although cultivated since antiquity, it was the invention of the cotton gin that lowered the cost of production that led to its widespread use, and...

January 8, 1825) was an American inventor, widely known for inventing the cotton gin in 1793, one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution that shaped...

cotton bale is a standard-sized and weighted pack of compressed cotton lint after ginning. The dimensions and weight may vary with different cotton-producing...

The Daniel Pratt Cotton Gin Manufactory ( Continental Eagle Corporation 1986–2012) was a cotton gin factory created by Daniel Pratt in 1854 (Present Buildings...

(1857–1924) invented the "system cotton gin". After that achievement, Munger started and ran some of the largest gin manufacturing companies in the United...

dual-roller gins appeared in India and China. The Indian version of the dual-roller gin was prevalent throughout the Mediterranean cotton trade by the...

There are two species of gecko named cotton ginner: Sphaerodactylus macrolepis Sphaerodactylus grandisquamis This page is an index of articles on animal...

Look up gin in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gin is an alcoholic beverage flavoured with juniper berries. Gin, Gins or GIN may also refer to: Gin (name)...

trade was strongly influenced by the invention of the cotton gin, which made short-staple cotton profitable for cultivation across large swathes of the...

19th century into the 20th century. Before the invention of the cotton gin in 1793, cotton production was limited to coastal plain areas of North Carolina...

him a mechanical genius. Within a year he had produced a model for the cotton gin. In an 1883 article in The North American Review titled "Woman as Inventor"...

textile manufacturing to the United States, Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin, Éleuthère Irénée du Pont's improvements in chemistry and gunpowder making...

to Cotton Gin Port on the upper Tombigbee River and on to Fort Stoddert on the lower Tombigbee. The portion from the Tennessee River to Cotton Gin Port...

The Floyd Cotton Gin is a historic cotton gin at the junction of Arkansas Highway 31 and Arkansas Highway 305 in Floyd, Arkansas, USA. It is a two-story...

later loaded onto trucks and transported to a cotton gin for processing. In 1971 the first experimental cotton module builder was designed and built by a...

Emmett Till Historic Intrepid Center housed in the old cotton gin of Glendora, Mississippi. Glendora Gin history sign. Here Milam and Bryant got the fan they...

The Hanger Cotton Gin is a historic cotton gin in Sweet Home, Arkansas. Built about 1876, it is a rare surviving example of a steam-powered gin. The main...

impact on American history. Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin in 1793 enabled cotton seeds to be removed 50 times faster, a breakthrough which...

(April 1790 – December 5, 1861), born April Ellison, was an American cotton gin maker and blacksmith in South Carolina, and former African-American slave...

early business ventures were sawmills and cotton gins, founded in the 1880s to process local lumber and cotton. The town was not established until 1882...

challenge by inventing the inexpensive cotton gin. A man using a cotton gin could remove seed from as much upland cotton in one day as would previously have...

The Piazza Cotton Gin is on the Frogmore Plantation at 11656 U.S. Highway 84, about 7 miles (11 km) west of Ferriday, Louisiana in Concordia Parish, Louisiana...

The Stipe Cotton Gin is a historic cotton gin at Florida and Cypress Streets in Beebe, Arkansas. It is a two-story steel-framed structure, clad in corrugated...

one-act plays: 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and The Unsatisfactory Supper. The plot focuses on a feud between two rival cotton gin owners in rural Mississippi...

mechanical cotton gin, cotton had required considerable labor to clean and separate the fibers from the seeds. With Eli Whitney's gin, cotton became a tremendously...

the 17th and 18th centuries, but it was not until the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney in the 1790s that slavery grew very profitable and that...

dramatically after 1800—all the way to Texas—thanks to the cotton gin (also known as a cotton engine). Plantation owners brought mass supplies of labor...