Consider the invention of the cotton gin. This occurred during the mid-point of the Industrial Revolution, when Yale graduate Eli Whitney (to grossly oversimplify it) figured out how to eliminate those tedious and time-consuming seeds from cotton fibers. Although there were already earlier prototypes in the Antebellum South that had been invented by Indians on More

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