The invention being discussed here is the Cotton Gin. The description highlights its efficiency in cleaning cotton compared to previous methods, as well as the reduced manpower needed to operate it.
“One man will clean ten times as much cotton as he can in any other way before known and also clean it much better than in the usual mode. This machine may be turned by water or with a horse, with the greatest ease, and one man and a horse will do more than fifty men with the old machines.”
What invention is being discussed here?
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Factories
Cotton Gin
Spinning Jenny
The Steamboat
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