Grade Range: 6-12Resource Type(s): Lessons & ActivitiesDate Posted: 2/15/2005
Explore science, technology, and invention through American textile history in these interdisciplinary curriculum units from the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. Learn about the development of the cotton gin, the growth of Northern textile production, the invention of dyes and dying, the development of nylon in World War II.
Discussions, Multimedia instruction, Museum education
In 1794, Eli Whitney patented a new kind of cotton gin. His invention, using rotating brushes and...
textile, World War II, WWII, technology, industrialization, innovation, inventor, science, Second World War, cotton, factory, WW2, invention, enslaved, immigration, experiment, world war 2, slavery, cotton gin, immigrant
A poetic look at life as a young cotton field laborer.
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