The cotton gin inventeed by Eli Whitney was invented to mechanize the slow and tedious process of separating the cotton seed from the actual cotton which at the time was done by hand.
The cotton gin removes the seeds from the cotton. This is a more difficult and slower process when done by hand, without the use of a cotton gin.
It decreased the price of cotton
You would not capitalize it. cotton gin
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The cotton gin essentially replaced the handpicking and cleaning of cotton. Before the invention of the gin, the U.S. employed slaves to handpick cotton. Currently, only third world countries still use slaves to handpick cotton.
I hung my cotton shirt up in the wardrobe.
cotton gin
The cotton gin essentially replaced the handpicking and cleaning of cotton. Before the invention of the gin, the U.S. employed slaves to handpick cotton. Currently, only third world countries still use slaves to handpick cotton.
It is still in use today.
1794.
It was called the cotton gin because it separated seeds from the cotton, so that is how the invention got is name.
cotton gin timeline