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Eli Whitney’s Patent for the Cotton Gin

Eli Whitney's Patent for the Cotton Gin, March 14, 1794 (detail)
Designed to separate cotton fiber from seed, Whitney’s cotton gin, for which he applied for a patent on October 28, 1793, and received a patent on March 14, 1794, introduced a new, profitable technology to agricultural production in America.
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