Eli Whitney Research Paper

Eli Whitney was born in Westboro, Massachusetts and raised on a farm. During his early years, he had a strong knack for making machines and working with technology and soon began crafting things on his own. He first began by making nails, canes, and ladies’ hatpins. Before Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin, he was a student at Yale University and intended to become a private tutor after school, but stayed with a woman named Catherine Greene instead. During his stay on her plantation, he learned about cotton production and how difficult it was for cotton farmers to live a decent life. Eli’s invention of the cotton gin helped begin American manufacturing, but also had some negative effects on slaves and other products.

     Eli Whitney's machine was the first to clean short-staple cotton. His cotton engine was made of spiked teeth that were on a revolving cylinder which when turned by a crank, pulled the cotton fiber through small openings to separate the seeds from the lint.                                    L-ter on, the gins became horse-drawn and were powered by water. As a result, the cotton was being produced at a much faster pace. The price of cotton also decreased. Cotton soon became the number one selling good.

In 1793 the cotton industry bloomed because of Eli Whitney when he invented the cotton gin. With the invention of the cotton gin, cotton became a tremendously profitable industry, creating many fortunes for white plantation owners in the antebellum South. “American inventor Eli Whitney and his cotton gin improved the cleaning of raw cotton, facilitating the continuing growth of the industry in many locales.” This proves that the cotton industry rose after the gin was invented. It is evident that Eli Whitney played a major part of the growth of the cotton industry. Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin revolutionized the cotton industry.

In 1794, U.S. inventor Eli Whitney patented a machine that transformed the production of cotton by significantly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber called the cotton gin. By the middle of the 19th century cotton had become America’s leading export. This gave Sothern’s the rationalization to maintain and expand slavery despite large number of abolitionists in America. While the cotton gin made cotton processing easier, it facilitated planters in earning greater profits, resulting in larger cotton crops. This in turn increased slavery because it was the cheapest form of labor. As for the North, particularly New England, the cotton gin and cotton’s increase meant a steady supply of raw materials for its textile mills.

Whitney met Catherine Greene, a widow of a Revolutionary war veteran and Phineas Miller, a manager of Greene's plantation Mulberry Grove, near Savannah, in Georgia after accepting an offer to study law there. Greene and Miller addressed the lack of production for cotton in their plantation. Whitney created the cotton gin

The cotton gin invented by Eli Whitney in 1794 had a powerful impact on the slavery business and the Civil War. It allowed one slave to produce much more cotton, making the demand for cotton and slaves much higher, ultimately provoking the civil war and causing much more pain and suffering than what was needed.

Eli Whitney was the inventor of the cotton gin and a pioneer in the mass production of cotton. Whitney was born in Westboro , Massachusetts., on Dec. 8, 1765, and died on Jan. 8, 1825. He graduated from Yale College in 1792. By April 1793, Whitney had designed and constructed the cotton gin, a machine that automated the separation of cottonseed from the short-staple cotton fiber.

The effects of the cotton gin on slavery was that the need for slaves increased so that they could keep up with the profitability that came with its invention. Eli Whitney’s invention could help produce cotton lint quickly and efficiently. Plantation owners needed more slaves in the field to keep up with the new gin invention.

     Another major effect of slavery caused by Eli Whitney’s cotton gin was the Compromise of 1820. As the farmers spread westward, they took the practice of slavery with them. This led to a problem when in 1819 Missouri petitioned to enter the Union as a slave state. This idea scared the North who realized the

When Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1794 there was not much of an impact at first, but once the 1800’s came around the cotton gin gained popularity. The cotton gin was used in the south by slaves to separate the cotton fiber from the seeds. It had teeth that pulled the fiber apart and let the seeds fall out. The north and south, both, were impacted by the cotton gin, but depending on who you ask; workers, slaves, slave/ plantation owners, mills owners; people would have different opinions.

The inventor of the cotton gin Eli Whitney almost went broke because as a result of his invention. He was fighting almost 60 lawsuits over the patent of his cotton gin. #1 “An invention can be be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor.”- Eli Whitney. With the invention of the cotton gin, America supplied three quarters of the world with cotton during the 1800s While the cotton gin did do well in supplying the world with cotton it increased slavery. #1 In 1790, there were 657,000 slaves in the south and after the invention of the cotton gin In 1810, there are 1.3 million slaves in the south. In 1793, Whitney patented the gin and at the time, 188,000 pounds of cotton are produced. In 1810, there are 1.3 million slaves and 93 million pounds of cotton are produced each year. As a result of the increase in slaves, more than 600,000 US citizens died on the Civil War battlefields.The Civil War can be attributed in some ways to the invention of the cotton gin.#9 The cotton gin was a very important

Throughout American history, there comes a time where a great invention is crafted that comes and impacts our society greatly. Inventions usually have an overall positive affect on the world, but not in the case of the cotton gin. 1792 is when Eli Whitney invented this machine(king cotton) When Eli invented it, he had no idea of the effect that it would have to American Society. The invention of the cotton gin caused an increase of slaves in the south with harsher working conditions, and it also fluctuated the southern economy, which all played a major role in the Civil War.

He invented more than a dozen devices to improve electric railway cars and many more for controlling the flow of electricity. His most famous invention was an invention used to let the engineer know how close the train was to other trains which helped cut down many accidents on the train tracks. (Bellis n.d.)

Historians believe that one of the greatest pioneers in the birth of automation, American inventor, pioneer, mechanical engineer, and manufacturer is Eli Whitney. He was the inventor of the cotton gin that made the South become the cotton producing part of the country because Whitney's cotton gin was able to successfully pull out the seeds from the cotton bolls.“I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.” Above, quote signifies and illustrates what he felt at the time when making the invention. He know that it is a serious task that he has to complete but he feels as if it can be critical for him, nevertheless this invention

     Eli Whitney created one of the first causes of the Civil. In 1793 Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin greatly increased the amount of cotton produced. The cotton gin cleaned the cotton by extracting the cottonseeds efficiently. In the 1800’s, 36,000 bales of cotton were exported, but