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The Cotton Gin and Eli Whitney
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Bibliography
http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/cotton_gin.htm
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/cotton-gin-patent/
http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/cotton-gin-and-eli-whitney
Problems in the Whitney Household
Patent-law issues prevented Whitney from ever significantly profiting from the cotton gin. However, in 1798, he secured a contract from the U.S government to produce 10,000 muskets in two years, an amount that had never been manufactured in such a short period.
INVENTOR
Eli Whitney was born in Westboro, Massachusetts on December 8, 1765. In 1792 he graduated from Yale College. A year later in 1793, he had designed and constructed the cotton gin. The cotton gin was a machine that could seperate cottonseed from the short-staple cotton fiber.
Long-term Advantages
Modern day cotton gins can produce 450 to 500 pounds in one bale.The saw gin that was invented by Eli Whitney was improved to the point where the device, especially suited to short and modern-staple cotton, has been mechanized and is used in modern commercial plants that are also called gins, where the fiber is conveyed from farm wagon to baler by air suction. In the modern roller gin, rollers covered with rough leather draw out the fibers, which are cut off by a fixed knife pressed against the rollers.
Short-term
Inventions Function
The cotton gin lowered the man hours required to seperate the cottonseed from the raw cotton fibers, while increasing cotton production.
Prior to his invention , farming cotton required hundreds of man-hours to seperate the cottonseed from the raw cotton fibers. These machines have been around for centuries however, Eli Whitney's invention automated the seed seperation process.