Age
10+
Grade
5-6
Nancy Robinson Masters
The Cotton Gin
Paperback
(Franklin Watts Sept. 1, 2006)
Explains the importance of cotton and the mechanics of the cotton gin, patented by Eli Whitney in 1794, and describes how this invention enabled the expansion of the American slave trade.
- Series
- Inventions That Shaped the World
- ISBN
- 0531139018 / 9780531139011
- Pages
- 80
- Weight
- 5.6 oz.
- Dimensions
- 7.75 x 0.25
in.