Sentences with phrase «cotton gin»

In the late 1900's, this city was the site of a blacksmith shop, a couple of cotton gins, some small churches, and a rural general store.

«There's also a big push for cotton gins in the Riverina region and it's a sector that attracts institutional investment.»

Beef and dairy cows are fed cotton straw, cotton seed meal and waste from cotton gins.»

Can you believe the wood flooring is antique pine from an old cotton gin in Alabama?

Several nights later, Bryant's husband Roy and his half - brother J. W. Milam arrived at Till's great - uncle's house where they took Till, transported him to a barn, beat him and gouged out one of his eyes, before shooting him through the head and disposing of his body in the Tallahatchie River, weighting it with a 70 - pound cotton gin fan tied around his neck with barbed wire.

The equipment is fully automated and controlled by the same software program that Lummus uses to control modern, full - size cotton gins.

I recently sat down with Alison at her studio space within a converted cotton gin in the Deep Ellum neighborhood of Dallas where we discussed her life in the UK, her decision to become an artist, her art - making process and making room for experimentation.

After that, we stopped by Keith's to drop off a couple of things for the makeover we're doing in his living room right now, then we visited the old Prattville cotton gin, and the «bamboo forest» so that Chris could shoot some b - roll footage.

In the late 1900's, this city was the site of a blacksmith shop, a couple of cotton gins, some small churches, and a rural general store.

He compiled data from all sources (the cotton manufacturers did their own counter-study) on the complete paths from cotton gin to diaper to washing machine, and from plastic factory to diaper to dump.

1774 Eli Whitney is awarded a colonial patent for the cotton gin.

Founded by the family that invented the cotton gin, it helped fuel Georgia's post-Civil War boom, but the long reign of King Cotton is over.

Prattville is named for Daniel Pratt, who purchased the land in the 1830s to build a cotton gin factory.

There were serious persons then and now that blamed the war on Eli Whitney for his invention of the cotton gin in 1794.

In 1793, Eli Whitney, a New Englander, invented the cotton gin, which made it possible to use a type of cotton that had not formerly been used, and which freed labor for work in the fields.

The cotton gin made it possible to double, triple, and far surpass previous production.

Suggestions for any radical solution of the problem, such as emancipation, had never been seriously considered, and now that slaveholders had the cotton gin, and cotton ruled as king of their economic life, they felt that they had to maintain slavery.

With the invention of the cotton gin to separate out seeds, help became a major threat to cotton, given how much hardier / easier to grow it is and how much more durable it is (the reason the military has grown / used hemp for rope during wars...).

Online articles, webinars, fact sheets and videos help producers make decisions about Seed Cotton program and Cotton Ginning...

Mr Phillips, who is also president and chairman of T&C Bancorp in Missouri, bought the Koramba property in 1985 and converted it into a massive cotton irrigation plantation and then later established a vertically integrated business with four cotton gins.

That, plus the lure of a one - night stay in the Cotton Gin Bed & Breakfast and dinner in the award - winning restaurant that finally convinced us to make a reservation.

They all hitched rides on the cotton wagons, bouncing about in the white fluff, and the community was so enchanted that it arranged a big fish fry at the cotton gin to welcome Edwards» girls properly.

They expected that the slave trade would die off by itself (since they did not anticipate the invention of the cotton gin).

But it was displaced by other fibres, cotton in particular, following the introduction of the cotton gin — a machine for separating the cotton seeds from their surrounding fibres.

Not the cotton gin!

If anything, Footloose makes Ren a little too good: he fixes cars, works at the cotton gin, resists Ariel's temptations and even quotes the word of God in a bible - thumping speech before the town council.

What about that man, the last slave to live on the plantation where Eli Whitney first dreamed up the idea for the cotton gin?

Karl Malden plays a cotton gin owner with a child bride he hasn't had sex with yet (she's 19 in the movie, about to turn 20, I suspect she's younger in the original).

Guess he wasn't satisfied with inventing the cotton gin.

Eli Whitney (December 8, 1765 — January 8, 1825) was an American inventor best known as the inventor of the cotton gin.

Whitney's Cotton Gin - picture only - no sentence.

We followed the Montgomery trailer until it turned at the cotton gin.

The Old Gin House is a faithful reconstruction of an 18th century building that once housed a cotton gin.

As the collection catalogue states, the «artist's left - brain thinking belongs to the same tradition of invention that yielded the cotton gin, the telegraph, air travel and the internet.

Anthony Harper and Chris Melhouse have created a vibrant art colony and event venue in the 19th - century remains of a cotton gin factory.

Kevin Beasley, Rebuilding of the cotton gin motor, 2016.

Kevin Beasley (b. 1985, Lynchburg, VA) engages with the legacy of the American South through a new installation that centers on a cotton gin motor from Maplesville, Alabama.

I mean, there are economic and technological factors involved in both (eg, the cotton gin, and America's industrial might), but surely they weren't everything.

Instead, cotton became king, and it was just three miles up the Savannah River from the Trustees» Garden where Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin which revolutionized the cotton industry.

Akin to Whitney's cotton gin, George Schlichten's hemp decorticator brought economy and efficiency to hemp processing and promised to expand hemp's uses in a new industrial era, a markedly different path from what Du Pont's new technologies promised.

From the cotton gin to Google Buzz, we marvel at the machines we invent and congratulate ourselves for our ingenuity.

Obtained successful resolutions for clients in administrative hearings in Oklahoma relating to insurance, cotton gins, electrical power, environmental issues, water, employment, and oil and gas.

Cotton gins, which revolutionized the Southern economy, were first manufactured in New Haven by Eli Whitney in 1793.

Our client, a leading producer of strapping and packaging systems, is seeking a skilled Field Service Technician to install, repair and provide service to packaging machinery in cotton gins, corrugated plants, steel mills, paper mills, lumber mills, brick plants and general industry.

Our client, a leading producer of strapping and packaging systems, is seeking a skilled Field Service Technician to install, repair and provide service to packaging machinery in cotton gins...

Our client, a leading producer of strapping and packaging systems is seeking a skilled Field Service Technician to install, repair and provide service to packaging machinery in cotton gins, corrugated plants, steel mills, paper mills, lumber mills, and general industry.

In the early days, Aynor had a bustling tobacco market as well as a brickyard, cotton gin, and several mills.

We live right close to a cotton gin so it's fun to watch all the cotton as it's brought in for processing.

Mr. Pratt founded the town of Prattville in the 1830's, and his cotton gin factory quickly became the largest producer of cotton gins in the world.