The cotton gin machine affected American Society because it made it easier for the workers--usually slaves--to pick the cotton.
It made cotton fabric inexpensive enough for the masses, because people didn't have to comb the seeds out of cotton lint by hand anymore.
they had to get more slaves
Threshing machine
In today's society it is picked by a machine in the fields. Back before the machine was invented slaves or others did it by hand and picked out the seeds. Now the machine sorts and picks out the seeds.
Eli Whitney (1765 - 1825) was an American inventor. His most famous invention was a cotton gin - a machine which separates cotton fibers from their seeds.
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin machine.
In 1794, American inventor Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin, a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton. Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin revolutionized the cotton industry in the United States. His machine could generate up to fifty pounds of cleaned cotton daily, making cotton production profitable for the southern states.
It makes the work easier and faster. But not high quality.
Cotton Gin- 1794 Threshing Machine- 1834
cotton gin
it removed seeds from the cotton pieces
cotton gin