In 1794, Eli Whitney patented a new kind of cotton gin. His invention, using rotating brushes and teeth to remove the seeds from cotton, was quickly pirated by others. Southern plantation owners ...

If you went to elementary school in the United States, you no doubt learned about Eli Whitney’s cotton gin as an example of how the industrial revolution took previously manual processes and ...

Everything seems to be bigger in Texas, including the gins. Ed Wolff of the Texas Farm Bureau takes a look inside the largest cotton gin in the U.S. on AgDay above.

The Territory’s new cotton gin has had an immediate impact on a key regional economy, with production across its first season reaching 1000 bales per shift. Read what else it’s brought to the ...

TANNER, Ala. (WAFF) - A cotton gin in Limestone County turned into a classroom for the day. Fifth graders from Athens and Limestone County schools got the chance to tour a cotton gin in Tanner. It’s a ...

TANNER, Ala. (WAFF) - A cotton gin in Limestone County turned into a classroom for the day. Fifth graders from Athens and ...

The Hutchinson News reports that the southern Kansas cotton gin formerly known as High Plains Cotton could see its second biggest ginning year. Its first was in 2007, when it ginned 24,000 bales.