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Author: Angela Lakwete Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 9780801882722 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 256
Book Description
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.
Author: Angela Lakwete Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 9780801882722 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 256
Book Description
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.
Author: Jessica Gunderson Publisher: Capstone ISBN: 9780736878951 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 36
Book Description
"In graphic novel format, tells the story of how Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, and the effects it had on the South"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Nancy Robinson Masters Publisher: Children's Press(CT) ISBN: 9780531124062 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 80
Book Description
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.
Author: Wesley Buchele Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781530311781 Category : Languages : en Pages : 160
Book Description
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.
Author: Daniel Augustus Tompkins Publisher: Legare Street Press ISBN: 9781015867864 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Nikole Brooks Bethea Publisher: Engineering That Made America ISBN: 9781503816428 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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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: Barbara Mitchell Publisher: Millbrook Press ISBN: 1575057794 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 68
Book Description
Eli Whitney’s love of inventing and pondering new ideas made him one of America’s greatest inventors. Best known for inventing the cotton gin, one of the most important American inventions of the century, he changed cotton production forever. A few years later, Whitney invented machines to make muskets that were identical. The first mass-manufacturing business in the country, his musket factory revolutionized the way Americans made things.
Author: Arvel Loyd Vandergriff Publisher: Texas Tech University Press ISBN: 9780896723719 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 316
Book Description
His first job was in a cotton gin at the age of nine. Today as an octogenarian, A. L. Vandergriff continues his life-long commitment to advancing the technology of the industry he loves. Considered by some to be the seminal figure in designing gin plants to handle machine-picked cotton, Vandergriff is widely known for his many important contributions to the cotton ginning industry. All contemporary high-capacity gin plants have been influenced by his innovative designs. Vandergriff describes in detail the various modifications that he has made to improve different components of the gin stand. He also discusses some of the contributions made by others either independently or as modifications of his research. The current phase of his research culminated with the development of the 198 saw gin, the first twenty-bale-per-hour gin stand.
Author: Frank Puterbaugh Bachman Publisher: ISBN: Category : Inventions Languages : en Pages : 284
Book Description
Nine remarkable men produced inventions that changed the world. The printing press, the telephone, powered flight, recording and others have made the modern world what it is. But who were the men who had these ideas and made reality of them? As David Angus shows, they were very different quiet, boisterous, confident, withdrawn but all had a moment of vision allied to single-minded determination to battle through numerous prototypes and produced something that really worked. It is a fascinating account for younger listeners.
Author: Angela Lakwete
Author: Angela Lakwete
Author: Jessica Gunderson
Author: Nancy Robinson Masters
Author: Wesley Buchele
Author: Daniel Augustus Tompkins
Author: Nikole Brooks Bethea
Author: Barbara Mitchell
Author: Karen Gerhardt Britton
Author: Arvel Loyd Vandergriff
Author: Frank Puterbaugh Bachman