The development of the cotton gin — patented in 1794 — involves an interesting lesson about solving engineering problems. Farmers in the southern United States had a big problem. Tobacco was a ...

The Hutchinson News reports that the southern Kansas cotton gin formerly known as High Plains Cotton could see its second biggest ginning year. Its first was in 2007, when it ginned 24,000 bales.

With the gin (short for engine), raw cotton could be quickly cleaned; Suddenly cotton became a profitable crop, transforming the southern economy and changing the dynamics of slavery. The first ...

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

Whitney's gin made cotton production far more efficient, fueling the need for more southern slaves and enriching powerful planters. Another Whitney invention—muskets with interchangeable ...

"And was the means of changing the whole course of industry in the southern section of the union. Previous to the invention of his cotton gin, in 1793 or 4, scarcely a pound of upland cotton was ...