Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America
(Part of the Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology Series and Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology Series)
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Winner of the 2004 Edelstein Prize given by the Society for the History of Technology "The cotton gin animates the American imagination in unique ways. It evokes no images of antique machinery or fluffy fiber but rather scenes of victimized slaves and battlefield dead. It provokes the suspicion that had Eli Whitney never invented the gin, United States history would have been somehow different. Yet cotton gins existed for centuries before...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0801882729
ISBN13:9780801882722
Release Date:September 2005
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Length:248 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"
Age Range:22 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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