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Lakwete shows how indentured British, and later enslaved Africans, built and used foot-powered models to process the cotton they grew for export. After Eli Whitney patented his wire-toothed gin, southern mechanics transformed it into the saw gin, offering stiff competition to northern manufacturers.
Explains the importance of cotton and the mechanics of the cotton gin, patented by Eli Whitney in 1794, and describes how this invention enabled the expansion of the American slave trade.
After the Revolutionary War, Americans quickly began to establish their own industries, eager to move on from the embargos placed on them during British rule. One agricultural industry that flourished was the growing and ginning of cotton, its success largely coming from the invention of the cotton gin. Most Americans believe that Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. Southern folklore tells a different story-that a young blacksmith from South Carolina, Henry Ogden Holmes, patented the first practical cotton gin. It was a continuous-flow rip-saw-toothed gin, much more efficient than Whitney's first gin. Who Really Invented the Cotton Gin? delves into the history and folklore surrounding the first cotton gins. Iowa State University Professor Emeritus Wesley F. Buchele, who taught farm machinery design for forty-three years, and William D. Mayfield, a longtime expert in cotton ginning technology, use their technical and investigative expertise to share what made Holmes' and Whitney's gins different, who came up with what design first and patented it, and who really did invent the first practical cotton gin. This book is a fascinating look at the history behind one of agriculture's most significant innovations.
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Offers a narrative telling of the invention of the cotton gin, looking at how Eli Whitney got the idea, developed it, obtained a patent, and tried to profit from it, as well as how the invention affected the cotton business and the practice of slavery.
Author : Eric B. Schultz Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group Page : 393 pages File Size : 25,49 MB Release : 2019-10-29 Category : Business & Economics ISBN : 162634664X
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