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A Cotton Pickin' Good Invention
American inventor Eli Whitney created the cotton gin in 1793, to mechanize cotton fiber production. The cotton gin easily and quickly separated seedpods and sticky seeds from cotton fiber. The method is a wire screen on the cotton gin and small hooks made of wire that pull the cotton through the cotton gin screen. Brushes are continuously removing the loose lint from the cotton to prevent the cotton gin from jamming. The name cotton gin comes from an abbreviation of the word engine.
Whitney was
working for Catherine Green when he invented the cotton gin; so some
say that she should be credited with the concept. Women at that time
weren't allowed to claim patents in their own name and thus Greene
gave financial and moral support to Whitney's creation of the cotton
gin. The other controversy surrounding Eli Whitney's claim of the
cotton gin invention is a patent office document that shows that two
years prior to Whitney's claim of invention Noah Homes, a machinist,
filed for a cotton gin patent as well.
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