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 ...

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 ...

“We felt like we needed to expand to do a better job, a timelier job of ginning the producer’s cotton,” said Jerrell Key, general manager for Adobe Walls. “We jumped in and built another gin.

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - A cotton gin in Dawson County marked a major milestone this year, catching the owner by surprise. It wasn’t until after some deep digging that Al Crisp discovered the true age ...