Cotton was once too labor-intensive to be profitable until the cotton gin changed everything. In this episode, the crop’s ...

1793: Eli Whitney applies to patent his new invention: a machine that quickly separates cotton seeds from cotton fibers. The cotton gin was the little engine that could — and did — transform the ...

History buffs take note: an early working model of one of the most important inventions of the 19th century, Eli Whitney’s cotton gin, will be auctioned next week in Dallas at Heritage Auctions. As ...

Cotton gins across the Texas Panhandle are set to receive $22.8 million in grant funding aimed at strengthening ...

Finding sustainable markets for gin trash, wood chips and other waste products could be viable in producing more electrical power for a growing global population, according to researchers. A ...

If you went to elementary school in the United States, you no doubt learned about Eli Whitney’s cotton gin as an example of how the industrial revolution took previously manual processes and replaced ...

Construction is set to begin on the Northern Territory's first commercial cotton gin in July as growers commit to a site near Katherine. Top End growers have been trucking cotton 3,500km to Queensland ...

Cotton gin waste, also known as cotton gin trash, is a byproduct of the cotton ginning process and occurs when the cotton fibers are separated from the seed boll. For cotton gin waste, the treasure is ...

The estimated $70m WANT (Western Australia-Northern Territory) cotton gin is expected to provide dozens of jobs and stimulate the Katherine regional economy when processing begins next year. Barrister ...

At a time where crop prices are poor and the farm economy is bleak, the small town of Cullison is seeing an optimistic future for cotton. The Hutchinson News reports that the southern Kansas cotton ...

Cotton growers in the south-west of NSW will have access to a second cotton gin in time for this season's harvest. Six growers in the Murrumbidgee Valley have spent $20 million building the gin at ...