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 ...

In the 1970s Westborough High School students redesigned the town's seal as a contest and added a drawing of a cotton gin. But in 2020, the Westborough Town Council began debating whether the gin ...

director of the adjacent Texas Cotton Gin Museum, said. On Saturday, an annual festival in Burton, a town of about 300 people midway between Houston and Austin, will draw thousands to mark the ...

This gin was exhibited at the World's Fair, in London, where it was commended, and adopted as best calculated to promote the growth of cotton in India, Egypt, Turkey, Italy and Brazil. It was ...