The estimated $70m WANT (Western Australia-Northern Territory) cotton gin is expected to provide dozens of jobs and stimulate the Katherine regional economy when processing begins next year. Barrister ...

History buffs take note: an early working model of one of the most important inventions of the 19th century, Eli Whitney’s cotton gin, will be auctioned next week in Dallas at Heritage Auctions. As ...

1793: Eli Whitney applies to patent his new invention: a machine that quickly separates cotton seeds from cotton fibers. The cotton gin was the little engine that could — and did — transform the ...

At the same time, your cotton needs some moisture or other problems can arise. Cotton that’s excessively dry can cling to ...

Finding sustainable markets for gin trash, wood chips and other waste products could be viable in producing more electrical power for a growing global population, according to researchers. A ...

Construction is set to begin on the Northern Territory's first commercial cotton gin in July as growers commit to a site near Katherine. Top End growers have been trucking cotton 3,500km to Queensland ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. - Over 14 million bales of cotton will be harvested in the U.S. this season, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. All of that cotton will run through a machine invented in ...

If you went to elementary school in the United States, you no doubt learned about Eli Whitney’s cotton gin as an example of how the industrial revolution took previously manual processes and replaced ...

The last of seven cotton gins is being tested this year as the fieldwork for a major 4-year cotton gin dust sampling project draws to a close. Scientists organized the project to intensively sample ...

A co-operative of 59 cotton growers plans to build yet another cotton gin in south-west NSW. The $24 million development, just south of Carrathool on the Sturt Highway, has the capacity to process 150 ...