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The earliest versions of the cotton gin consisted of a single roller made of iron or wood and a flat piece of stone or wood. The earliest evidence of the cotton gin is found in the fifth century, in the form of Buddhist paintings depicting a single-roller gin in the Ajanta Caves in western India. [4]
Cotton Gin Patent. It shows sawtooth gin blades, which were not part of Whitney's original patent. A cotton gin on display at the Eli Whitney Museum. The cotton gin is a mechanical device that removes the seeds from cotton, a process that had previously been extremely labor-intensive. The word gin is short for engine.
The Daniel Pratt Cotton Gin Manufactory (Continental Eagle Corporation 1986–2012) was a cotton gin factory created by Daniel Pratt in 1854 (Present Buildings on west side of Autauga Creek), in what is now Prattville, Alabama, [1] a town named for him. The factory became the largest cotton gin machinery factory in the world and supplied cotton ...
William Ellison Jr. (April 1790 – December 5, 1861), born April Ellison, was an American cotton gin maker and blacksmith in South Carolina, and former African-American slave who achieved considerable success as a slaveowner before the American Civil War.
King Cotton in Modern America: A Cultural, Political, and Economic History since 1945 (2010) excerpt; Riello, Giorgio. Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World (2015) excerpt; Riello, Giorgio. How India Clothed the World: The World of South Asian Textiles, 1500–1850 (2013) Yafa, Stephen (2006). Cotton: The Biography of a Revolutionary ...
PRATTVILLE, Ala. (AP) — There’s no painless way to explain the history of a massive brick structure being renovated into The post Slavery’s ghost haunts cotton gin factory’s transformation ...
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.
The drink’s origins are said to date to 1916 when bartender Hugo Ensslin published Recipes for Mixed Drinks and featured a drink made with one-third lemon juice, two-thirds gin, two dashes of ...