{"id":839,"date":"2017-01-13T20:27:13","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T20:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/?p=839"},"modified":"2017-01-13T20:27:13","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T20:27:13","slug":"patent-for-cotton-gin-1794","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/?p=839","title":{"rendered":"Patent for Cotton Gin (1794)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Old English Text MT; font-size: 300%;\"><b>Patent for Cotton Gin (1794)<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<a name=\"wptoc_0_0_0\"><\/a><h1><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Patent for Cotton Gin (1794)<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The cotton gin is a device for removing the seeds from cotton fiber. Such machines have been around for centuries. Eli Whitney&#8217;s machine of 1794, however, was the first to clean short-staple cotton, and a single device could produce up to fifty pounds of cleaned cotton in a day. This made cotton a profitable crop for the first time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">After this invention, the yield of raw cotton doubled each decade after 1800. Demand was fueled by other inventions of the Industrial Revolution, such as the machines to spin and weave it and the steamboat to transport it. By mid-century America was growing three-quarters of the world&#8217;s supply of cotton, most of it shipped to England or New England where it was manufactured into cloth. During this time tobacco fell in value, rice exports at best stayed steady, and sugar began to thrive, but only in Louisiana. At mid-century the South provided three-fifths of America&#8217;s exports\u2014most of it in cotton.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Erickson\/Documents\/My%20Webs\/mathwise\/images\/Document_Images\/Pattent_of_the_Cotton_Gin_1794.bmp\" width=\"500\" height=\"684\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patent for Cotton Gin (1794) Patent for Cotton Gin (1794) The cotton gin is a device for removing the seeds from cotton fiber. Such machines have been around for centuries. Eli Whitney&#8217;s machine of 1794, however, was the first to clean short-staple cotton, and a single device could produce up to fifty pounds of cleaned &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/?p=839\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Patent for Cotton Gin (1794)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":840,"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions\/840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}