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What the machine that removes seeds from cotton?

cotton gin


What machine rapidly removes seeds from cotton?

A cotton gin


What does the cotton grin do?

the cotton grin is a mechanical device that removes the seeds from cotton


Who invented a machine that pulled seeds from raw cotton?

Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin which removes the seeds from cotton.


How is the cotton gin useful?

After the cotton is picked it is sent to a gin. The gin removes the seeds and the cotton is cleaned and bailed for shipment.


What is the name of the machine that removes seeds from the cotton?

It is called a cotton gin and is still used today in a modernized form.


What is the purpose of a cotton gin?

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.


What substance is processed in a Ginnery?

Cotton is typically the substance processed in a ginnery. The ginnery removes seeds from cotton fibers, preparing it for further processing into textiles.


What was the invention that helped to make the US the world leader in cotton production?

Eli Whitney's cotton gin which removes seeds from cotton made US cotton cheaper and improved its position on the world market.


What was the importance on the cotton gin?

Before the cotton gin the cotton seeds had to be hand picked out of the tight knit bolls. This took a long time and was labor intensive. Cotton can't be processed with the seeds still in the bolls. The cotton gin removes the seeds by having brush type rollers tear apart the cotton boll and the seeds fall to the bottom. The seeds are used for the next crop of cotton and the gin meant that much more cotton could be planted which led to the need for a larger population of slaves.


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 did the he cotton gin factory do?

The cotton gin helped to clean the cotton fibers. It had comb like structures that rotated to take dirt, bugs, and othere things out of the fibers. This made it ready to be made into threa, using the spinning jenny.