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Cotton gin
A reproduction of Eli Whitney's 1794 cotton gin. His invention used rotating brushes...
Division of Home and Community Life, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
The First Cotton Gin
Enslaved Africans working the first cotton gin, engraving published in Harper's...
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Replica of Eli Whitney's 1793 cotton gin.
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Eli Whitney: cotton gin sketch
Sketch submitted to the Patent Office by Eli Whitney, showing the operation of the...
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