Document for October 28th:
Eli Whitney's Patent for the Cotton Gin, March 14, 1794
Eli Whitney's Patent for the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney's Patent for the Cotton Gin, March 14, 1794; Records of the Patent and Trademark Office; Record Group 241, National Archives
Designed to separate cotton fiber from seed, Whitney's cotton gin, for which he applied for a patent on October 28, 1793, and received a patent on March 14, 1794, introduced a new, profitable technology to agricultural production in America.
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