During the Civil War, there WAS no machinery to pick cotton- it was picked by hand. The machine that was used to separate the cotton fiber from the seeds was the Cotton Gin (as in engine).
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More recent civil wars had them, but the American Civil War did not have tanks. Tanks were invented by the British during WW1. "Tank" was the code name for the development project and the name stuck to the final product.
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Yes, slaves had to pick king cotton; "King Cotton" is just another name for Cotton during the times of slavery before the American Civil War. It was a phrase used in those times since cotton was so important.
The technical name for a mechanical cotton picker is a cotton harvester. Instead of having humans manually pick cotton, the harvester machine does it.
It is called a cotton gin and is still used today in a modernized form.
The Cottin Gin.
The Cottin Gin.
mainly this web site is not reliableRIETER-Drawing and Plucking machinesA "throstle" is a machine formerly used for spinning fibres such as cotton or wool.
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