The gins that remain can process much higher volumes than in past years, thanks to innovations from field to gin. One of those includes compacting harvested bolls into rectangular or round modules to ...

Bowling Green Plantation, Wilkinson County, Mississippi, 1795. Eli Whitney has planted the seed of the American cotton industry's industrial revolution by engineering the cotton gin! Which would ...

This episode explores Georgia's cotton industry. Georgia is where the growing of cotton commercially began and where the cotton gin was invented. This episode explores Georgia's cotton industry along ...