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Summary: The Cotton Gin Invention
The Cotton Gin Invention

"Go get the cotton so the people can get the seeds out," his dad said.

Eli was a boy who lived on a farm with a normal family that was going to do a great thing in his life. He went around and asked farmers what they think was most hard. Most of the answers were the same.

"On a farm what do you think is most difficult to do?" Eli told the farmer.

"Obviously the getting the seeds out of the cotton," replied the farmer.

"Can you hand me that ranch," said Eli. He began to work on a machine that could solve farmers problems, but there was a problem he didn't know how to finance it and needed some help building it. He looked for people everywhere and meet Catherine Greene and her fiancé Phineas Miller.

"Hey so what do you need
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"Let's get to work," Eli said.

They built the cotton jinn it was very successful until they started charging people every time they used it. People started making there on, so they stopped buying the original.

The Cotton Gin Invention

"Go get the cotton so the people can get the seeds out," his dad said.

Eli was a boy who lived on a farm with a normal family that was going to do a great thing in his life. He went around and asked farmers what they think was most hard. Most of the answers were the same.

"On a farm what do you think is most difficult to do?" Eli told the farmer.

"Obviously the getting the seeds out of the cotton," replied the farmer.

"Can you hand me that ranch," said Eli. He began to work on a machine that could solve farmers problems, but there was a problem he didn't know how to finance it and needed some help building it. He looked for people everywhere and meet Catherine Greene and her fiancé Phineas Miller.

"Hey so what do you need help on?" Said Catherine.

"I'm building a machine that will help a lot of people and don't really now how-to finance it." Eli replied.

"Sure, we can help you with that," Phineas

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