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    Eli Whitney’s Effects on America Eli Whitney was one of the greatest inventors in American History. Eli Whitney’s invention of the Cotton Gin helped bring prosperity to the South‚ expand slavery‚ and lead to a civil war. Eli also is credited for popularizing the idea of mass production and interchangeable parts. All of Eli Whitney’s ideas changed the entire country and played a significant role in the history. Eli Whitney was born in Massachusetts in 1765. Eli worked in his father’s nail shop as

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    Cotton Chemistry of Cotton Fiber The chemical composition of cotton fibers and the quantity of different constituents vary greatly with the type of plant‚ soil and climate. Row cotton fiber‚ after ginning‚ is essentially composed 94% cellulose. Chemical composition of cotton fiber:  Constituents                                     Percent Cellulose                                           94.0% Protein                                              1.3 Paretic substances                             1

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    American Life In The 1800s

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    grow different products or they owned livestock. For the most part‚ the North raised livestock while the South grew crops such as corn‚ wheat‚ rice and the cash crop‚ cotton. American’s everyday life was slowly being molded by the new inventions being introduced. Some innovations include the textile factory‚ the railroad‚ and the Cotton Gin‚

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    experience can be extrapolated to other Asian countries‚ including Indonesia. There are several problems in any quantification of the production and consumption of cotton textiles during 1825-1940. Firstly‚ until the 1930s no statistical data are available on domestic production in Indonesia‚ whether of raw cotton‚ ginned cotton‚ yarn‚ cloth‚ bleached cloth‚ dyed cloth or garments‚ and even in the 1930s these were incomplete. Most of this activity took place in the household and in small scale

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    Slave Life In The 1800s

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    slave life “look like” when it expanded in the south after the introduction of the cotton gin? Why? There are many perspectives of slave live‚ from the young children to matured adults‚ Saltwater Africans had one thing in common which was heartache. The shipment of slaves coming from the upper to lower parts of the south was a domino reaction by the invention of a disarmingly simple machine that processed as much cotton in a single day as fifty slaves cleaned by hand‚ created by Eli Whitney in 1793

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    BASIC QUESTIONS Raw Cotton: 1. What is your idea about cotton? What are the different types of cotton? 2. Draw a diagram by which you can explain process production & marketing of raw cotton. 3. What are the different countries where raw cotton is produced? Draw a table in where you can explain country wise percentage of raw cotton in the world. 4. What are the steps to import raw cotton from other countries? Explain with diagram & documentations produced in bank. 5. Explain communication

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    Slavery In The 1800s

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    Slavery spread to other western territories and states as new cotton fields were planted‚ and by 1830 it thrived in more than half the continent. Within 10 years after the cotton gin was put into use‚ the value of the total United States crop leaped from $150‚000 to more than $8 million. This success of this plantation crop made it much more difficult for slaves to purchase their freedom or obtain it through the good will of their masters. Cotton became the foundation for the developing textile industry

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    for growing food crops which served the dual purpose of providing food for its hungry soldiers and money for its ever-growing industries. The South‚ on the other hand‚ devoted most of what arable land it had exclusively to its main cash crop: cotton (Catton‚ The Coming Fury 38). Raw materials were almost entirely concentrated in Northern mines and refining industries. Railroads and telegraph lines‚ the veritable lifelines of any army‚ traced paths all across the Northern countryside but

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    Fibres and Fabircs - Vanda Rulewaska Term 1 assignment INTRODUCTION TO FIBRES AND FABIRCS CONTENTS 1.0 INTRODUCTION 2.0 TREND - ZARA‚ Dolce&Gabbana 3.0 FABRIC AND CARE ANALYSIS : POLYESTER‚ SILK‚ COTTON 4.0 GARMENT COMPARE : NON-WOVEN‚ WOVEN‚ KNITTED                 FABRIES 5.0 APPENDIX I - MOOD BOARD : FUR SEASON IN WILD WORLD 6.0 CONCLUSION 7.0 BIBLOGRAPHY 1.0 INTRODUCTION Textile fiber‚ a unit in which many complicated textile

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    carbon dioxide from patients’ blood and supply fresh oxygen Table 4. Healthcare/hygiene products (from Rajendran et al. [10]). Fibre Type Cotton‚ polyester fibre‚ polypropylene fibre‚ Viscose Viscose‚ polyester fibre‚ glass fibre Polyester fibre‚ polyethylene fibre‚ Cotton‚ polyester fibre‚ polyamide fibre‚ elastomeric-fibre yarns Cotton‚ polyester fibre Cotton Cotton‚ polyester fibre Polyester fibre‚ polypropylene fibre Superabsorbent fibres‚ wood fluff‚ Polyetylene fibre‚ Viscose‚ lyocell Fabric Structure

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