Whitney, Miller, and Greene did not intend to sell the gin, instead planning a model where they would own all the machines and take a percentage of the clean cotton as a fee. Cotton as a service ...

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 ...

Within 10 years after the cotton gin was put into use ... American-born slaves were torn from the plantations they had known all their lives, placed in shackles and force-marched hundreds of ...

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is forecasting a big cotton crop in the United States this year at 12.2 million acres overall, a 21 percent increase from 2016. The Adobe Walls ...

A cotton gin in Limestone County turned into a classroom for the day. Fifth graders from Athens and Limestone County schools ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - A cotton gin in Dawson County marked a major milestone ... and it was right there on the first page.

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - A cotton gin in Dawson County marked a major milestone this year ... And so, I went in, and the girl opened it up, and it was right there on the first page. It had all the ...