It is called a cotton gin and is still used today in a modernized form.
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The Cottin Gin.
The Cottin Gin.
During the Civil War, there WAS no machinery to pick cotton- it was picked by hand. The machine that was used to separate the cotton fiber from the seeds was the Cotton Gin (as in engine).
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The Cotton Gin The Cotton Gin was so popular that people started getting them. The invention required more people to pick more cotton, so farmers bought even more slaves to pick the cotton.
It was called the cotton gin because it separated seeds from the cotton, so that is how the invention got is name.
Cotton is harvested using two methods in North America. The first is the cotton stripper: http://www.deere.com/servlet/com.deere.u90785.productcatalog.view.servlets.ProdCatProduct?tM=FR&pNbr=7460XN The other method is the cotton picker: http://www.deere.com/servlet/com.deere.u90785.productcatalog.view.servlets.ProdCatProduct?tM=FR&pNbr=9996XN
The technical name for a mechanical cotton picker is a cotton harvester. Instead of having humans manually pick cotton, the harvester machine does it.
Yes. The seeds develop inside the cotton boll. They are bred and sold by several seed companies under the name "cottonseed."
Search for the name Eli Whitney. Best known for the invention of the cotton gin (machine for removing seeds from raw cotton) Whitney was credited with standardization of parts for firearms. Before that, each gun had parts fitted by hand.
mainly this web site is not reliableRIETER-Drawing and Plucking machinesA "throstle" is a machine formerly used for spinning fibres such as cotton or wool.