The machine that revolutionized the cotton industry was invented in just ten days
Eli Whitney's cotton gin transformed global textile production almost overnight, yet the machine that increased efficiency by fifty-fold was designed and built in a mere ten days.
In March 1794, Eli Whitney received a patent for a machine that could clean 1,000 pounds of cotton in a single day—a task that previously took a full day for fifty people. Whitney, a Yale graduate, developed the spiked cylinder design after only ten days of observation on a plantation.
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