cotton gins
Seed-removing plantation equipment
Cotton gins are machines that separate cotton fibers from their seeds, a labor-intensive process that was done by hand before mechanization.
Eli Whitney's 1793 invention revolutionized cotton production and inadvertently entrenched slavery in the American South by making large-scale cotton farming enormously profitable.
The cotton gins ran day and night during harvest season.
- Eli WhitneyCotton gin's creator
- lintLoose textile fibers
- ginningProcessing raw cotton
- inventionsOriginal creations or devices
- seedsPlant embryos in casings
baling · fiber · cleaning · carding · cams · milling machines · pulleys · gears · factory system · boll · levers · mechanization · processing · spinning · patent system · compressing · sharecropping · cottonseed
- farm equipmenttractor, tractors, plow, plows, plough
- agribusinessagribusiness, farm, farms, corporate farms, factory farming
- Cotton Farmingcottonseed, bales, picking, cottonseed oil, boll weevil
- farm heritagefarmstead, barns, farm tools, farmhouses, barn dance
- Texas Agriculturecattle, beef, ranching, longhorns, feedlots
- plantationsplantation, Melrose, Monmouth, Longwood, plantation owner
processing direction
cotton ginsspinning wheels
Fiber-twisting textile devices
spinning jennies · looms · textile mills · power looms · spindles