WHO INVENTED THE COTTON GIN?
. This invention was eventually innovated into a foot powered and water powered machine. This was only effective for processing the varieties of cotton grown in India and the middle east. Catherine Littlefield Greene invented the modern cotton gin in 1793, although many people think it was Eli Whitney. In fact, Whitney simply built the machine from Catherine’s plans and when Eli was about to give up because of a problem with the machine, she fixed it. Eli Whitney only took out the patent for Catherine because at the time, women weren’t allowed to. This gin was more effective at separating the seeds from green seed cotton, a variety often grown in the south-eastern United States. The gin could separate cotton 300 times faster than a slave. Cotton gins are used to hold the cotton.
