In 1794, Eli Whitney was granted a patent for the cotton gin. In 1812, the U.S. government authorized the issue of America's ...

Eli Whitney’s cotton gin was not as instrumental in pushing the United States to Civil War as many believe, a history ...

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 ...

In 1879, physicist Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany. In 1883, German political philosopher Karl Marx died in London at age 64. In 1885, the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera “The Mikado” ...

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 ...

Engineer Eli Whitney died 35 years before the Civil War, but his most famous invention, the cotton gin, set the economic stage for war. Whitney's gin made cotton production far more efficient ...

Six o'clock last Thursday evening was quiet within the Jessie Collier DeLoach Boardroom at the Savannah-Chatham Public School System's Eli Whitney Administrative Complex, 2 Laura Ave. The school ...

In its first year, the model, which pairs every student on financial aid with a personal counselor, has been successful at ...

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Whitney Tech and Wilcox Tech will face off on Tuesday, March 4 at 6:30 p.m. ET. Don't miss out on any of the action with NFHS ...