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On March 14, 1793 the cotton gin was invented. This machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the prosess of removing seeds from the cotton fiber. By the mid 19th century, cotton has been become Americas largest export. In many ways, cotton was an ideal crop; it was easily grown, and unlike food crops, its fiber could be stored for lig periods of time. That is important becasue if they had a bad winter they could take the cotton from storage and use it to their advantage.

When was the cotton gin invented?

How was the cotton gin invented?

Aa a young boy Eli like to work in his father's workshop taking things apart, like clocks, and puting then back together agin. When he was a young man, he worked on a Georgian plantation tutoring chrilden. He noticed the trouble the slaves were haveing picking seed from cotton bolls. In his spare time, he put together an instrument that would allow the slaves to clean more cotton in a shorer amount of time.

How does the cotton gin work?

The cotton gin was a very simple invention. First, the cotton bolls were put into the top of the machine. Next, you turn the handle, which turns the cotton through the wire teeth that combs out the seeds. Then the cotton is pulled out of the wire teeth and out of the cotton gin.