The Cotton Gin
Invented by Eli Whitney out of the need for pure cotton without the small hard to find seeds and the outer shell. Slaves would be outside from dawn till dusk picking cotton and by the end of the day they were expected to have about 150-200 pounds of cotton when the day was done. A plantation could have any where from 20 to hundreds of slaves so the amount of time it would take to remove the seeds from the cotton would be very long and laborious. his invention helped the world out because the slave owners would have more cotton to sell in a smaller amount of time.
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