In History class we are doing an essay over something of our choosing. I chose technology and how it affected people. On how it affected people in the mid 1800’s, the region, and the country. Did it have any implications towards the upcoming war. I am going to write about the Cotton Gin. It made things so much easier. I thought this would be a good thing to write about because it helped a lot of people and it is a genius invention.
The Cotton Gin was the an amazing machine on how it worked and how much pure cotton it could produce. The inventor was Eli Whitney and he patented the machine in 1793. It would take the cotton balls and be picked apart through the two rotating cylinders with spikes on them so the cotton seeds would fall out through the bottom and into a tray. The two of the cylinders would rotate using just one crank. When the crank moved it would drive a belt on the
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His inspiration for building this was for creating it easier for the slaves when he visited a plantation in Georgia. It worked like a strainer or a sieve so the seeds could fall through the metal mesh in the bottom of it. Smaller gins could hand cranked and larger ones would be powered by horses or eventually a steam engine. Only one of the machines could remove about 50 pounds of cotton seeds a day. After he got his patent, him and Miller later started a company manufacturing the cotton gin. In conclusion, I think that the cotton gin was an amazing invention and helped revolutionize the agricultural and crop industry. They were way helpful and even the slaves liked them. They could have used some more thought or had more improvements done to them to make them better but they were great for what they were and when they were made. If I was around during this time, this machine is what I would invest my money into. They could make a lot more money in a shorter amount of time, and who does not like more
He found one man called William Thomas who bought the rights to the invention and arranged Howe to go to England to further improve the machine. However, they did not get along and Howe returned to America with little money and found that while he was gone lots of other companies were bust manufacturing machines. After a few lawsuits later, the argument ended when major companies joined together and pooled their patents and protected their inventions together.
The cotton gin help the slaves separated the cotton from the seeds. They had factories in the North and plantations in the south. The factories allowed for trading with forgeign countries. . A telegraph is how they communicated back then..
My cotton gin was a great invention and helped a lot because it took out the seeds much faster. My invention was successful because with more cotton with no seeds other companies would buy it to improve their
Francis Cabot Lowell, like Slater, had a great memory and he memorized designs of important textiles. He travelled to England for 2 years, from 1810 to 1812, and memorized the power loom in detail. He brought his knowledge of power looms back to America and invented a new textile machine. He created the first textile mill in 1814 in Waltham, Massachusetts called the Boston Manufacturing Company. The entire cotton manufacturing production happened in this one building.
I believe Robert Owen's ideas offered the most hope for improving the industrialized world in the 1900s. During this time there were new fascinating technological advancements. However, with these advancements came issues. People were forced to work in horrible conditions, and big factories meant more people needed to work long hours for a low pay. Robert was disgusted when he saw this, so in 1799, him and his business partners bought the New Lanark textile mills.
If the cotton gin had been invented at an earlier time the slavery wouldn’t happen because they wouldn’t need anyone to do the work, they needed to be done. People or more like slaves were being exploited due to the work they were doing. If the machines, they needed would have been invented at this time there would have not been a problem in looking for people to do any work and overworking them. There’s always different opinions whether positive or negative. The negative opinions were affecting certain people, such as the ones that were put under pressure by doing all the work.
By the early 1800’s, the vastly growing cotton industry soared as cotton became the nation’s most important and valuable export. The development of the cotton gin only further propelled the cotton industry into economic success. The cotton gin took care of the hard tedious work that slaves used to have to undertake and increased the pace and the quantities in which cotton bales were produced. Working among the cotton fields, slaves adopted the gang system. The gang system was most commonly used in the cotton industry; to speed up production but also formally used among tobacco and sugar production.
The cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney in 1793. Versions of a cotton gin have existed since the first century in which single rollers were used to try to separate the seed from the cotton. Over time, a double roller system was invented. Finally, in 1793, the version invented by Whitney actually used teeth-like projections to remove the seed from the cotton. A belt and pulley system then separated the lint from the seeds.
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These resources helped to build parts for the steam engine. The English scientific thought also helped cause the Industrial Revolution. People discovered different ways to things to make the process more efficient. Jethro Tull invented the Horse drawn seed drill which planted seeds in straight rows with significantly less labor (Document 7).
In the Great Depression it was known for relieving debts of farmers and giving them money to keep their farms going. John Deere had a huge impact on the time of the WestWard Expansion. The invention of the steel plow came with almost no draw backs with it. It was an amazing invention which was the spark of an agricultural boom in America. It allowed for easier plowing of ground.
The use of the cotton gin had a major impact on slavery by expanding the use and population of slaves. “This machine revolutionized the process of separating cotton from its seed, making it dramatically faster and less expensive to turn picked cotton into usable cotton for textiles” the author said. Harvesting the cotton fields was intense work and the more cotton that was being produced lead to more fields causing more slaves to be needed to work those fields. All the large cotton plantations that the south maintained, by 1850 the slave population increased tremendously. “Southern wealth had become reliant on this one crop and thus was completely dependent on slave-labor.”
The cotton would go into the top of the machine and with an individual turning the handle it would go through a series of wired teeth that combed out the seeds. After the seeds are taken out, the cotton would be pulled out of the machine. Comparative to the one pound of cotton a
Economic Change in America Change is relevant within every time period, however, very substantial changes took place in the Americas following the War of 1812. Future success of the American society was to be dictated by the support the federal government supplied to domestic manufacturing and infrastructure to make drastic improvements economically. The imposition of high tariffs, advancements in transportation and the development of the cotton gin are among the most important changes made in the United States during this time.
During the Industrial Revolution, many inventions were made, and one of them was the Power Loom. The Power Loom was a steam-powered, mechanically operated version of a regular loom, that combined threads to make cloth. This was invented by Edmund Cartwright and was made in 1785. Edmund went to a factory, and was inspired by what he saw. He began working on the Power Loom, so that weaving was more fast and the quality was improved.