click image for close-up In October of 1793, Eli Whitney sent a drawing of his new invention, the cotton gin, to Secretary of ... with is the forwarding a model, which being received, your patent ...

The gin solved the problem inherent in marketing short-staple cotton, which grew easily in ... and to delays in preparing a working model. Although his initial design was for a hand-operated ...

Whitney, Miller, and Greene did not intend to sell the gin, instead planning a model where they would own all the machines and take a percentage of the clean cotton as a fee. Cotton as a service ...