The Cotton Gin In the mid-19th century a war begun that would change America forever. This was the Civil War, a war in which the American nation split into two nations who were divided over the practice of slavery. This war can is undeniably seen as the bloodiest event in American history, therefore the machine that caused it is then the most threatening to American society. This machine is not a weapon, but a simple agricultural advancement called the cotton gin. At the turn of the 19th century

1793, the creation behind the cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney. His invention revived the economy of the South. The cotton gin was useful because it allowed the slaves to clean more cotton faster and it cut down the amount of time it took to do so. This also helped save the slaves from having to pick out all the seeds one by one from the cotton balls. As stated by Maureen Romero, “The South became the cotton producing part of the country because Whitney’s cotton gin was able to successfully pull

invention of the cotton gin. Next, was the creation of interchangeable gun parts. Finally, there was his factory. Eli Whitney’s several great accomplishments during the Industrial Revolution make him worthy of the honor of being placed on United States Currency. Eli Whitney’s first accomplishment was the invention of the cotton gin. The demand for cotton in England was growing, and the southern states could not keep up with the demand. The amount of labor and time required to pick the cotton was causing

about how and why the cotton gin was started during the Industrial Revolution. The cotton gin is a machine that separates cotton fabric from its seeds. People used a cotton gin so they wouldn’t have to separate the cotton and seeds by hand. Otherwise, this would be a time consuming job. People can thank Eli Whitney for inventing this product about 223 years ago in 1794. The main purpose for the cotton gin was to speed up the process of separating the cotton from seeds. Cotton is one of america's leading

Before the Cotton Gin was invented, the United States produced almost 750,000 bales of cotton in 1830. By 1850 this number had increased to 2.85 million bales. (Civil War History). The most used invention would have been the cotton gin, which was invented in 1794 by Eli Whitney. Whitney knew that the south needed a machine that could help the southern planters make cotton more profitable. That’s when he decided that the cotton gin would be the thing for the South. The cotton gin is a machine that

years later Eli created the cotton gin. Eli felt like this invention was needed due to the process of cotton was a long enduring process that needed to speed up due to the high demand of cotton. To invent the cotton gin Eli analysed what the slaves were doing to remove the seeds from the cotton fiber and make it more proficient. He went through many trials and conquered some problems, but later figured out the problems. The cotton gin was then created. The cotton gin was created in 1793 by Eli Whitney

“Necessity is the mother of all invention.” Cotton labor conducted by slaves was arduous and took long periods of time. A necessity for a faster way to separate the cotton seeds from the fiber evolved because it would take slaves laborious hours to created small amounts of cotton. In 1793, Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin and patented it a year later which mechanized the cotton process. This had the benefit of lowering the price of cotton production and removing slaves from that part of the process

on it. One cylinder would separate the seeds from the cotton and the other cylinder would pull the cotton into a separate compartment (Whitney, 2014). It was important to separate the seeds into a different compartment because they also had economic value, but nowhere in comparison to that of cotton. The seeds were used in cottonseed oil that was used in the production of candy, cooking, cattle feed and paper (Woods, 2009). The cotton gin was an easy concept, but the world, at this time, did not