Who invented the cotton gin?

Question

It was not Eli Whitney

Answer 1

Some consider that Catherine Littlefield Greene, Whitney's employer, should be credited with the invention of the cotton gin, or at least with the original concept. What is known is that Greene gave Whitney moral and financial support, and that women were not eligible to receive patents in the early U.S.

Contributing to the controversy, patent office records also indicate that the first cotton gin may have been built by a machinist named Noah Homes two years before Whitney’s patent was filed.

Answer 2

The cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney.

Answer 3

Eli Whitney, however, he did not patent it. He returned to New England with his concept and failed to patent his idea.. Eli Whitney never madae any money off his invention, but went on to standardize the manufacturing of parts, notably firearms, during the War of 1812, and became wealthy and reknown from his technique, which eventually led to the assembly line. He was inspired by chickens reaching through a fence for food with their claws to invent the cotton gin.

Answer 4

Eli Whitney only perfected it

Answer 5

Catherine Littlefield Greene

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_gin

Answer 6

Catherine Littlefield Greene

Answer 7

Mr Cotton Gin and Mrs Cotty Gin

Answer 8

Greene

Answer 9

eli whitney!!

Answer 10

ELI WHITNEY