On June 20, 1793, Eli Whitney, who had graduated from Yale the previous year, wrote to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, requesting a patent for his new invention, the cotton gin. The gin ...

this hope died with the invention of the cotton gin in 1793. With the gin (short for engine), raw cotton could be quickly cleaned; Suddenly cotton became a profitable crop, transforming the ...

His parents failed to provide him with enough money to support his education as a young man. Whitney created an improved mechanical cotton gin in 1793, patented it in 1794, and it spread throughout ...

INDEX: Forces For Change MARINE TECHNOLOGY By the 15th century a number of important changes to ship design had occurred making long journeys across the ocean possible; the first ...