Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin's social and the industrial changes to the US it made.

The cotton gin could clean as much cotton as fifty men could working by hand (Cotton Gin, 1). The cotton gin projected America into a mechanized world, where machines make work easier for man. Eli Whitney's cotton gin started the American Industrial Revolution.         Asiatic cotton grew in east Africa five thousand years ago in what is now, Pakistan. Persians brought the cotton to India where the cotton became more useful. The cotton then went to Italy …showed first 75 words of 1380 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1380 total…the evolution of America into the mechanized world. The cotton gin overall, greatly affected people and industry worldwide. It led to the creation of many other useful inventions and not so useful inventions such as, umbrellas for your shoes. The point is, you have to invent and try something before you figure out if it will be useful or not and in Eli Whitney's case the cotton gin proved to be very, very useful indeed.