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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modified link of Web site: ANCHOR - Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin. | Sep 18, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Mississippi Encyclopedia - Cotton Gins. | Jul 21, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: IOPscience - IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science - Study on the analysis of cotton ginning machine transmission system (PDF). | Jan 19, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Texas State Historical Association - The Handbook of Texas Online - Cotton Ginning. | Dec 10, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Heritage History - Eli Whitney and the Invention of the Cotton Gin. | Sep 05, 2025 | ||
| Changed “fibre” to “fiber” throughout. Replaced media. | May 27, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CiteSeerX - Cotton Gins - Method of Utilizing Emission Factors in Determining Emission Parameters (PDF). | Mar 24, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Underground Railroad Freedom Center - Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin A Mixed Legacy. | Oct 25, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Cotton Council of America - Introduction to a Cotton Gin. | Sep 13, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Bill of Rights Institute - Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin. | May 08, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: ANCHOR - Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin. | May 07, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The University of Arizona - Computer Science Department - The Story of Cotton Gin. | Mar 28, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Fact or Myth: Was Eli Whitney the first to invent the cotton gin? | Nov 10, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas - Cotton Gins. | Sep 12, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Engineering and Technology History Wiki - Cotton Gin. | Apr 27, 2023 | ||
| Noted that Whitney mechanized the brushes invented by enslaved workers. | Apr 11, 2022 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Apr 04, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Eli Whitney Museum and Workshop - The Cotton Gin. | Mar 29, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: United States History for Kids - Eli Whitney Cotton Gin. | Mar 29, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Our Documents - Patent for Cotton Gin (1794). | Jul 28, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: American Society of Mechanical Engineers - How the Cotton Gin Started the Civil War. | Jul 28, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: Quatr.us - Cotton Gin. | Jul 28, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Cotton Gin. | Jun 02, 2011 | ||
| Image of African slaves working the first cotton gin added. | Mar 12, 2011 | ||
| Added new Web site: National Archives - Eli Whitney's Patent for the Cotton Gin. | Sep 28, 2007 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | May 04, 1999 |
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