Whitney's cotton gin
1794 · Event
Dramatically sped up cotton processing; perversely entrenched US slavery.
On these timelines: Master, USA, Industrial Revolution
Around 1794
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Industrial Revolution ends (1840)
- American Revolution (1775)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
- Watt's separate-condenser steam engine patent (1769)