click image for close-up In October of 1793, Eli Whitney sent a drawing of his new invention, the cotton gin, to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson in application for a patent. Jefferson replied ...

If you went to elementary school in the United States, you no doubt learned about Eli Whitney’s cotton gin as an example ... famous for his labor-saving invention. He would go on to pioneer ...

After his death, Eli Whitney was described as "one of the most distinguished men who our country as produced." ...

On June 20, 1793, Eli Whitney, who had graduated from Yale the previous year, wrote to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, requesting a patent for his new invention, the cotton gin. The gin ...

Between that time and the Civil War, the slave population grew to a shocking four million people. Cotton gin inventor Eli Whitney received a patent for his invention in 1794, which separates cotton ...