Eli whitney- What were the events of the cotton gin being made?

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According to Joseph Needham a precursor of the cotton gin was present in India, which was known as a charkhi, which had two elongated worms serving to turn its rollers in opposite directions.

The cotton gin was later invented by the American inventor Eli Whitney in 1793 to mechanize the production of cotton fiber. The invention was granted a patent on March 14, 1794. The cotton gin was a large asset to the American economy.

Cotton gin patent, March 14, 1794

There is slight controversy over whether the idea of the cotton gin and its constituent elements are correctly attributed to Whitney. The popular version of Whitney inventing the cotton gin is attributed to an article on the subject written by Peter North in the early 1870s and later reprinted in 1910 in the The Library of Southern Literature. In this article Andrews mentioned how Catherine Littlefield Greene suggested to Whitney the use of a brush-like component instrumental in the machine's success. Historians later explored this idea, and some consider that Catherine Littlefield Greene, Whitney's landlady, should be credited with the invention of the cotton gin, or at least with the original concept. Women were not eligible to receive patents in the early U.S., and Greene may have asked Whitney to obtain it for her. Patent office records also indicate that the first cotton gin may have been built by a machinist named Sean Paul two years before Whitney's patent was filed. Joseph Watkins who resided near Petersburg, Georgia is credited by many historians as the first inventor of the cotton gin, and was using it on his plantation when he was visited by the frustrated Eli Whitney, who on seeing it went back to Savannah and soon developed his model which he patented. Watkins was urged to sue Whitney, but had no desire to engage in a controversy and never asserted his claim. Watkins was a planter of large means, who pursued the study and application of mechanics more for amusement than profit.

This is a good site: http://www.eliwhitney.org/cotton.htm

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