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Eli Whitney didn't discover cotton. He discovered the cotton gin. In 1793, the processing of cotton-and the economy of the South-was revolutionized with the invention of the machine called the cotton gin.

It could separate the seeds from fiber with the turn of a handle.

The inventor, Eli Whitney, was a Yale graduate who worked as a tutor to the children of a Georgia planter. Whitney's invention tripled cotton production in ten years.

By 1860, cotton represented nearly two thirds of all American exports.

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