...Eli Whitneys Cotton Gin Eli Whitney is a man from the 1760’s who, in 1793, created cotton gins. The Cotton Gin was a revolutionary machine that, when used, would separate seeds from the cotton. Cotton gins are a very useful invention, especially in the South. Cotton gins were very useful in the South due to that side of the world being based on agriculture, while the North was based on machinery and factories. Elizabeth Hargrett, the writer of the “New Georgia Encyclopedia,” explains how cotton gins work: “when cranked, they pull cotton fiber through small grates to separate the seeds, while a rotating brush removes lint from the spikes to avoid jams." (Hargrett). This majorly affected the cotton industry, allowing cotton farmers to quickly...
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...Bivu Chhetri The cotton gin is a machine that separates cotton seeds from cotton fiber. The modern mechanical cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney in 1793, and patented in 1794. The cotton gin was an imperative creation on the grounds that it drastically diminished the measure of time it took to discrete cotton seeds from cotton fiber. Preceding Whitney's innovation, cotton seeds must be evacuated by hand or with other primitive devices, making it a dull and opportune procedure. The cotton gin totally changed the cotton business in America. It made cotton a gainful yield in the southern United States, eventually prompting an ascent in bondage. Numerous antiquarians have refered to the creation of Eli Whitney's cotton gin as a heading reason...
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...The Interchangeable Man: Eli Whitney One major goal in life is to have a purpose, to achieve a sense of accomplishment. Many people fulfill this by striving to be an inventor, someone who creates. An inventor must have a brilliant mind, a passion to create, and must be in the right place at the right time in order to be successful. Eli Whitney’s youth, education, early inventions, and mass production achievements contributed to his place as a great inventor. The early life of a person can of predict their future, and Eli Whitney’s youth certainly does. He grew up on his family’s farm in Massachusetts, where inspiration for innovation surrounded him. Whitney spent time working for a blacksmith. During this time he designed and developed a nail forge based on the demand caused by British Embargoes. “Young Eli quickly learned how the marketplace worked, and diversified into hatpins and canes. It was his genius to observe what people needed, and to provide it” (PBS), even from an early age Whitney was able to innovate to make peoples lives easier. As a young man he found himself intertwined with a small niche such as ladies hatpins. This learned ability to create and innovate would prove to help Eli Whitney become a successful inventor. Despite being a blacksmith in his early years, Whitney sought out education at Yale College. His parents objected to his decision since he was not interested in studying law and theology. Whitney left home at the age of twenty-three and graduated...
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...A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation. The fibers are processed into clothing or other cotton goods, and any undamaged cotton was used for clothes. Seeds may be used to grow more cotton or to produce cottonseed oil and meal. Cotton fibers are produced in the seedpods of the cotton plant where the fibers in the bolls are tightly interwoven with seeds. To make the fibers usable, the seeds and fibers must first be separated, a task, which had been previously performed manually, with production of cotton requiring hundreds of hours of labor for the separation. Many simple seed-removing devices had been invented, but until the innovation of the cotton gin, most required significant operator attention and worked only on a small scale....
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...Though Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin gave birth to the mass production of cotton in America after 1793, it also had its negative effects. Before 1793, the need for slaves was beginning to diminish. Slaves cost so much to maintain that the plantation owners were suffering loss of profit since tobacco was being greatly overproduced. With the cotton gin, cotton could be refined with ease, yet plantation owners still needed laborers to pick the cotton, causing the need for even more slavery. The number of slaves on every plantation and farm skyrocketed in America after the cotton gin’s invention. Life for southern slaves was very difficult to deal with at this time, no matter if it were on a large plantation or a small farm. However, the life of a plantation slave had more structure as opposed to the life of a farm slave....
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...Impact of new inventions and methods of transportation during this time period began to form social and economic decisions among different parts of the United States. During the 1800s, many important new inventions were created that helped to shape the different forms of industry specialization that different parts of the United States would have. For example, Eli Whitney’s cotton gin caused the expansion of a strong agrarian society and economy in the southern United States. The cotton gin accelerated the rate at which cotton could be effectively harvested, while simultaneously cutting down on the intensity of the labor to be able to harvest cotton. Furthermore, another of Eli Whitney’s major invention, interchangeable parts, would help...
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...Eli Whitney's, Cotton Gin changed slavery, the South and American history because before the farmers living in the South who grew cotton could only remove could only remove the seed, from the soft fiber of cotton, from only about one-pound of short staple a day by hand which was not very slow to do since you had to take the seeds from one plant at a time. Soon after seeing the problem’s that American Cotton farmers had Eli Whitney had the idea of making the Cotton Gin that worked efficiently at removing the seeds from cotton and, the way that it worked is that you would put the cotton in the machine that had a series of hooks that would carry the cotton through a mesh that would be only big enough for the cotton fibers to go through, so the seeds would be separated instantly....
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...The Impact of Cotton on Society Mariah S. Carroll Yazoo City High School / Botany Abstract The influence on cotton affected many people everyday lives. Due to where cotton was a everyday need from clothes to foot wear and essentials. Slaves lives were really the lives that were been affected the most. The production of Eli Whitney’s cotton gin made the cotton business very profitable which increased the amount of slavery and ultimately caused a civil war. This paper will telling you about the History of cotton, how cotton and slavery affected the society, the impact cotton has the society today, how Africans Americans live styles were, and the hardships of picking cotton from slaves. This paper will be hitting some the important points of the growth and usage of cotton. The Impact of Cotton on Society Scientists in Mexico found pieces of fabric made from cotton that was almost 7,000 years old. In the Indus River Valley in Pakistan, cotton was being grown. By the 1450s, cotton was known throughout the world for all sorts of things. Cotton was important part in the American war, and was a major resource inn that particular time. A man in Massachusetts, Eli Whitney, secured a patent on the cotton gin in1793. By the 1850’s cotton was easily available at the corner store and sold by hundreds of different suppliers. As you would take out the time just to do it by hand you’re going to be going a long time due to the fact you only have two hands and you have to make...
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...In 1794 Eli Whitney patented the Cotton Gin, and marketed it as a cheap and easy way to make a profit growing cotton in the American south. The Cotton Gin created an economic boom in the U.S. and helped grow the nation. However, the invention also encouraged slavery, which contributed the American Civil War. While the gin provided a quick and easy way to separate useless seeds from valuable cotton fiber, harvesting the cotton from southern plantations remained both time consuming and labor intensive. In their search for a cheap solution to the problem, plantation owners turned to slavery to provide the work force needed to harvest cotton. Eli Whitney...
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...socialization of the 21st century. Laboratory where the first television images were transmitted. 8. Penicillin Penicillin wasn’t really invented, it was discovered. In 1928 Alexander Fleming discovered that if Penicillium notatum was grown in the appropriate substrate, it would release a substance with antibiotic properties. Fleming admitted his discovery of penicillin was an accident. (he accidentally left a Petri dish open) Black and white image of Alexander Fleming in his laboratory. Fleming accidentally discovered penicillin when he left a petri dish open over night. 9. Cotton Gin The cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 and revolutionised the cotton industry in the United States. The machine quickly and easily separated cotton fibers from their seeds speeding the process of a once painstaking job that could only be done by hand. Original model of Eli Whitney's cotton gin 10. Alphabet The first signs of a written alphabet date back to the 27th century BCE in Egypt. In fact, by this time Egyptians had already developed an alphabet with 24 hieroglyphs in it that used consonants and vowels. The modern English alphabet is derived from Latin and has 26 letters. The English language was originally written in the Anglo-Saxon futhorc runic alphabet style during the 5th century. A specimen of Proto-Sinaitic script containing a phrase. Possibly one of the first forms of written language using consonants and...
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...Slavery Timeline Samantha Wheeler Argosy University US History 9 March 2016 Slavery Timeline 1712 – Slave Codes 1775 – Dunmore’s Proclamation 1794 – Invention of the cotton gin 1820 – Compromise of 1820 1846-1848 – Mexican American war Slave codes were laws that were put into play by the colonies to restrict the slaves’ behaviors. The White settlers were afraid that since the number of African Americans was increasing, there was a greater chance for a violent rebellion to occur (Ushistoryorg, 2016). These laws impacted the slaves immensely. For example, these laws made it so that slaves were not allowed to own their own property since they were considered property themselves, they were not allowed to assemble without the presence of a white person, it was illegal to tach a slave to read or write, and slaves that lived off the plantation were restricted to certain curfews (Ushistoryorg, 2016). Also, if an African American was accused of a crime against a white person, they were automatically considered guilty (Ushistoryorg, 2016). Slaves were not allowed to give their testimonies or even appear in court. Slaves could not legally get married, which made it easier for their owner to separate them and sell them to another owner (Ushistoryorg, 2016). In November of 1775, John Murray, Virginia’s Royal Governor, issued the Dunmore proclamation which offered freedom to slaves who agreed to fight for the British. Murray expected the slaves to be motivated by the ability...
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...much quicker than the south * National road runs through the north * Erie Canal is built in the north * Eli Whitney’s interchangeable parts system allowed for mass production * Industrialization draws people from rural setting to towns (growth of large cities) * Negative results of growth: crime, riots, fire, sanitation issues (cholera and typhoid spread) * Societal Roles: * Men of all social classes worked outside the home * Women: * Poor women worked as domestic servants/in factories/or as seamstresses or launderers * Middle class women remained at home * African Americans: * Women worked as domestic servants * Men worked in shipping industry as sailors or dockworkers in New England * Small African American middle class (carpenters, shoemakers, teachers, ministers) * While industrialization grew in the early 1800s in the north, agriculture remained the primary source of income for most people SOUTH * The invention of the cotton gin if important to understanding the necessity of agriculture and slave labor in the south * Invention of the cotton gin happens at the same time textile mill in Europe are expanding * Mills need cotton, south is making a ton of money selling cotton * Need slave labor to produce the cotton and continue to make money * South does not industrialize near as quickly as the north * Class structure: * Planter...
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...Eli Whitney was a great inventor during the Industrial Revolution, mostly known for his invention of the Cotton Gin. Eli Whitney grew up in Massachusetts, studied at Yale, and became one of the Industrial Revolution's greatest inventors, all the while still having time for a family life. Born on December 8, 1765 in Westborough, Massachusetts. Eli Whitney was born into a farming lifestyle. His parents, Eli Whitney Sr. and Elizabeth Fay, led simple farming lifestyles. However, Eli had always been more inclined towards machinery and technology. He lived a nice life until his mother died when he was eleven and his father was forced to remarry. Eli went to school in Westborough, there he learned to read and write and also greatly advanced in mathematics....
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...In the history of America, technological developments and advancements played a huge role in its success. The war of 1812 left the country with some serious economic problems. Luckily technological advancements like the cotton gin in the south were there to boost America back into stable wealth. These advancements that saved America could be seen in both the north, south and even western regions of the United States. A first technological advancement could be found in the northern states of the US. With the great rise of european immigrants, the urban north was densely crowded, dirty, and dangerous. Most citizens had moved here to make big money working in factories. The marketplace was crammed with cheap manufactured products from britain....
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...Historical Timeline and Essay Michael Meisenheimer AAGN10AA62 December 11, 2011 Kelly Cantrell Historical Timeline and Essay Timeline 1793 Eli Whitney Invents the Modern Cotton Gin Slavery was becoming less and less profitable in the South prior to 1793. One reason was because cotton was not a profitable crop for farmers because preparing it for sale was so labor intensive. Eli Whitney's cotton gin turned cotton into a profitable crop and raised the demand of slaves in the South to grow it. This coincided with the North becoming a more industrialized region that didn't need to depend on slaves. 1819 Missouri Compromise The Missouri Compromise was brokered by Senator Henry Clay to settle the dispute between the North and the South about if the Western territories would be slave or free. Under the terms of the Compromise, slavery would only be allowed in Missouri and south of the 36th parallel. The need for the Missouri Compromise illustrates how the North and the South were beginning to hold very different views on how allowable slavery was to the nation. Bitter feelings about the compromise persisted in both the North and the South. 1828 The Nullification Crisis The Nullification Crisis grew out of a protective tariff of 1828. The tariff was popular with the Northern states, because it provided protection for American made goods. Southern states traded heavily with Great Britain during this time, and felt it would damage their economies. With the support...
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