He was a tutor at a Georgia plantation,Whitney over heard the planters discussing the problem of seperating the cotton from the seeds imbedded in the cotton ball. They told him how they would cut there hands on the seeds all the time. unlike Upland cotton which could be grown overmuch of the south, but it was extremely difficult to clean. ... Whitneys machine was called a cotton gin. ... Combined with the recent opening of the first cotton mill (business that turned raw cotton into useable thread and cloth) in the United States,the cotton gin led to an explosion in the production of and deman...

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