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COTTON GIN

COTTON GIN

The fabric cotton comes from cotton fibers that mix with seeds in the pods of cotton plants. To make the fabric, therefore, you have to separate the fibers from the seeds.

For centuries this was done mostly by hand, until Eli Whitney "invented" the cotton gin in 1793. 

Five years earlier, in 1788, Joseph Eve developed his own mechanized self-feeding roller gin. 

In 1795, John Barcley filed a patent on a gin featuring circles of teeth -- awfully similar to Whitney's wire-tooth model.

In short, the modern cotton gin was a eureka moment that multiple inventors experienced.

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