Drawing from patent application for the cotton gin
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A single-sheet reproduction of the patent drawing for Eli Whitney's cotton gin, dated March 14, 1794. It shows two figures of the machine, including a side view with a large toothed cylinder, a smaller cylinder and a brush or comb mechanism used to separate cotton fiber from seed. The sheet carries almost no text beyond the inventor's name, title and date.
- Type
- Ephemera
- Date
- 1794
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
- Archive notes
- From National Archives & Records Administration
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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