Cotton Mather Description: He was the son of Increase Mather‚ and grandson of both John Cotton and Richard Mather‚ all also prominent Puritan ministers. Mather was named after his maternal grandfather‚ John Cotton. He attended Boston Latin School‚ where his name was posthumously added to its Hall of Fame‚ and graduated from Harvard in 1678 at age 15. After completing his post-graduate work‚ he joined his father as assistant pastor of Boston’s original North Church.[1] In 1685 Mather assumed
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invented a simple machine called the cotton gin. The main purpose of this machine was to automatically separate the cotton fibers from the seeds. Similar machines already existed for long-staple cotton‚ but they did not work with short-staple cotton. The basic concept was the same‚ using brushes to separate the two parts of the cotton. Whitney’s design‚ however‚ used spiked teeth to pull the fibers from the seed more effectively than previous machines. Whitney’s cotton gin only contained a few parts.
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In many high schools‚ slavery is often a subject that is glanced over and mildly talked about. However‚ cotton and cotton-related inventions‚ such as the cotton gin‚ are the themes of many class lectures. It is wrongful not to explore and debate the relation between slavery and cotton in the South. It has been proven time and time again that the two are not mutually exclusive; the cotton industry directly--and indirectly--influenced slavery through purely its numbers‚ high demands‚ the “American
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was the man who invented the Cotton Gin‚ and made the Cotton production go along ten times faster. Eli Whitney was born in 1765‚ and grew up on a farm in Massachusetts. When he had grown older‚ he got a job at a tobacco plantation in South Carolina. But with the growing cotton industry in the south‚ Whitney’s employers turned to growing cotton. Eli Whitney saw how hard it was to grow and manufacture cotton‚ because it took many hours to get the seeds out of the cotton‚ then spin into clothing. With
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DBQ The cotton and cloth production in Japan has greatly increased. Japan is hiring more and more workers preferably females workers. The women don’t get paid the first year‚ says the older sister of Aki (Document 3). Most of the entire factory workers were farmers; they went to work in the factories to make more money for their families’ (Document 5). “For the last few decades there has been a rapid decline of hand woven cloth”‚ (Document 6) this just shows you that machines are taking over
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The cotton gin had many effects. I believe that the cotton gin effected people in a negative and positive way and it also helped pave way for many other important inventions we use today. The cotton gin was a machine that basically made collecting cotton much easier the way the cotton gin worked was cotton was run through a wooden drum embedded with a series of hooks that caught the fibers and dragged them through a mesh. The mesh was too fine to let the seeds through but the hooks pulled the cotton
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The cotton industry grew increasingly popular during the 1880s and continued its growth all the way to the 1930s. Two of its major producers were India and Japan‚ and although they both worked in the production of cotton‚ they had various differences. They used the same employees but their production rates were not the same. The living conditions in which the people worked also seemed to have been better in India than Japan. And the percentage of female laborers was much higher in Japan. Documents
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the Cotton Gin ! ! ! Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin around 1763. At the time he invented the engine Whitney lived with Catherine Greene‚ a widowed plantation owner. While staying with Greene‚ Whitney learned a lot about the production of cotton. He learned it was a tedious‚ time consuming and labor intensive job. Whitney was a graduate of Yale and was talented in the field of mechanics and inventive engineering. Eli’s solution was simple‚ an engine that separated the cotton after
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The Loray Mill in Gastona‚ North Carolina was a textile factory that also ran the village in which the employees lived. In 1929‚ G. A Johnstone was hired to reduce production cost in the factory by establishing the “stretch-out” system. Soon he would be replaced by J.L Baugh‚ who would continue with the reduction in production. The working conditions at the Loray Mill drew the attention of the National Textile Workers Union led by Fred Beal. The workers gathered to discuss what steps could be taken
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PROJECT PROFILE ON Spinning Mill (14400 Spindles) PREPARED BY 8th Floor‚ Parishrama Bhavan‚ Basheerbagh‚ Hyderabad 1. Introduction: Spinning in conversion of fibers into yarn. These fibers can be natural fibers (cotton) or manmade fibers (polyester). Spinning also entails production of manmade filament yarn (yarn that is not made from fibers). Final product of spinning is yarn. Cotton value chain starts from Ginning that adds value to it by separating cotton from seed and impurities. Spinning
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