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Gin (/ dʒ ɪ n /) is a distilled alcoholic drink flavoured with juniper berries and other botanical ingredients. [1] [2]Gin originated as a medicinal liquor made by monks and alchemists across Europe.
Robert Sylvester Munger (July 24, 1854 – April 20, 1923) and his wife Mary Collett Munger (1857–1924) invented the "system cotton gin". After that achievement, Munger started and ran some of the largest gin manufacturing companies in the United States.
Eli Whitney Jr. (December 8, 1765 – January 8, 1825) was an American inventor, widely known for inventing the cotton gin in 1793, one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution that shaped the economy of the Antebellum South.
Whitney's gin is made with two rotating cylinders. The first cylinder has lines of teeth around the circumference, and angled against this cylinder is a metal plate with small holes, "ginning ribs", through which the teeth can fit with minimal gaps. The teeth grip the cotton fibers as the mechanism rotates, dragging them through these small holes.
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...
The Shirley Temple mocktail was first created about a century ago, but its history, ingredients and recipe are up for debate, a cocktail professional told Fox News Digital.
The Gin Craze was a period in the first half of the 18th century when the consumption of gin increased rapidly in Great Britain, especially in London. Daniel Defoe commented: "the Distillers have found out a way to hit the palate of the Poor, by their new fashion'd compound Waters called Geneva, so that the common People seem not to value the ...
First use of the cotton gin - Our engraving on page 813 represents the primitive cotton-gin, which preceded the saw-gin invented by Eli Whitney toward the close of last century. This simple contrivance consisted of two cylinders revolving in opposite directions, which admitted the fibre readily but prevented the passage of the seed and larger ...