Minimal turnout leads to quick hearings on the new homestead exemption that requires Georgia school districts and ...

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 ...

After his death, Eli Whitney was described as "one of the most distinguished men who our country as produced." ...

click image for close-up In October of 1793, Eli Whitney sent a drawing of his new invention, the cotton gin, to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson in application for a patent. Jefferson replied ...

Engineer Eli Whitney died 35 years before the Civil War, but his most famous invention, the cotton gin, set the economic stage for war. Whitney's gin made cotton production far more efficient ...

A small plaque now sits in front of a classic white farmhouse in a quiet residential neighborhood on Eli Whitney Street. "The plaque is actually what's left of his front steps," Allen said with a ...