Learning about the Cotton Gin

A volunteer at the Smithsonian Museum of American History describes the history and operation of the Cotton Gin and its inventor Eli Whitney.

[@richaarrd1]

Thank you! I'm 78yo and a few minutes ago I realized I didn't know how a cotton gin worked... now I do... thanks to you, RUclips and the Internet (which I do know how it works)...

[@traycer11]

Last 4th grade project ever...completed! Aggghhh! Onto the 5th grade. Thanks, RUclips for stuff like this...my kid "gets it" so much better with this kind of media. To think, all I had was an aged set of encyclopedias passed down from a previous generation. So, here we have it...learning about the Industrial Age via the Information Age in order that our kids can be smarter & save our world during this, the Green Age.

[@ShirleyHuinink]

Thank you! this will help my study with my grade 5 class, of the Underground Railroad.

[@ziheem123]

This helped my Freshman history project! THANKS :)

[@TheMattwasherein1992]

awesome vid, greatly explained

[@ducatiman97]

Just watched this for a world history project. hahaha. thanks alot, this video really helped

[@bassjio]

i always wanderd about this ty

[@Var1ety]

Great vid.

[@tacosadams5491]

THIS IS AWSOME!!!!!!!:D

ending: and yudda yudda yudda....lol..good display.

[@zekry007]

HOW CAN I MADE THIS MACHINE

[@djjon4445]

The woman's like "Oh it is soft" 2:23. You don't say!

[@michaelsainte8383]

"It was very hard work by the way" Oh, was it?

[@connorrowley3293]

Eli whitny is my 7th uncle

[@waheebsalah4327]

عمل جميل

[@RetroWaveDave84]

Why should i as a successful plantation owner buy one of these new fangled contraptions when i have plenty of slave hands to do it for me?

[@subatomic10]

^On

[@keyinregulus14]

Nice concise demonstration for visual learners.