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Originally people called "cotton pickers" removed the seeds from raw cotton by hand, but this was slow and labor intensive. Eli Whitney invented a machine called the "Cotton Engine" (shortened in common usage to the "Cotton Gin") that removed the seeds from raw cotton quickly and easily. Unfortunately he made no money from this invention as it was so simple that anyone needing one simply made it himself.
The Cotton Gin saved the south's Plantation slave based economy, until the Civil War.
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∙ 7y ago
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∙ 8y agoA brush of many closely spaced wire bristles "combs" the raw cotton over and over. The seeds got caught between the wire bristles while the cotton fibers slipped smoothly through. As the brush passed out of the cotton the seeds fell loose from the bristles into a box that collected the seeds. The cleaned cotton fibers would then be removed and more raw cotton inserted.
Without the cotton gin the seeds would have had to be picked out by hand one at a time.
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∙ 10y agoYes, and they still are. They are used to separate the seeds from the cotton bolls.
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What machine removed the cotton seeds from the cotton fiber quickly and easily?
Cotton Gin.
What inventions made cotton the South's most important crop?
The cotton gin- a machine for removing seeds from raw cotton quickly and cheaply- and the spinning jenny- a machine that would spin cotton fiber into thread. Together with the power loom (used to weave cloth from thread) it greatly increased cheap production of cotton cloth- and increased the demand for cotton.
What is the machine that separated cotton seeds and cotton?
Threshing machine
What is a sentence for cotton gin?
I hung my cotton shirt up in the wardrobe.
What is a cotton gin and who patented?
The cotton gin was a machine for removing seeds from cotton fibres prior to spinning. Gin is a corruption of 'engine'. Eli Whitney was granted the first patent in 1794.
What does a cotton machine do?
it removed seeds from the cotton pieces
What the machine that removes seeds from cotton?
cotton gin
What is the machine remove seeds from cotton?
cotton gin
What was a cotton gin and why did it change the economy and lives of people living in the south?
It is a machine (gin comes from engine) that quickly removes the seeds from raw cotton. It made cotton cheap to produce.
What machine rapidly removes seeds from cotton?
A cotton gin
What is the machine called that takes seeds out of cotton?
Cotton gin
Who invented a machine that pulled seeds from raw cotton?
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin which removes the seeds from cotton.
