Eli Whitney has planted the seed of the American cotton industry's industrial revolution by engineering the cotton gin! Which would revolutionize cotton production and create less of a need for ...

He said that the old gins produced 50 cotton bales an hour. “Now we’re running 70 or 71 bale an hour when we’re really full,” Sain said. This is Clay County’s first and only cotton gin.

This tribute honors John Edmonston, a community leader who took over his family's cotton gin at 21, shaping its legacy with ...

If you went to elementary school in the United States, you no doubt learned about Eli Whitney’s cotton gin as an example of how the industrial revolution took previously manual processes and ...