The cotton gin

Title
: 
The cotton gin

Personal Author EPSB
: 
Nancy. Robinson Masters

Summary
: 
Removing seeds from cotton was time-consuming and labor-intensive before the invention of the cotton gin. The gin made this work easier and faster and had a tremendous impact on Southern plantations and in the textile industry.

Year Published
: 
2006

Series
: 
Inventions that shaped the world

Physical Description
: 
80 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm.

Note
: 
Includes index.

Personal Subject
: 
Whitney, Eli, 1765-1825.

Subject
: 
Inventors -- United States -- Biography.
 
Inventors.

Summary
: 
Removing seeds from cotton was time-consuming and labor-intensive before the invention of the cotton gin. The gin made this work easier and faster and had a tremendous impact on Southern plantations and in the textile industry.

ISBN
: 
9780531124062

Publisher
: 
New York : Franklin Watts, 2006.


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