The cotton gin cut the cost of removing seeds from cotton.
There are manufactures of boots and shoes, straw and leather goods, carpets, &c. Westboro was the birthplace of Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin.
One person with a horse and a cotton gin could process as much as fifty people without the gin.
The simplest cotton gin in extensive use is the " churka," used from early times, and still largely employed in India and China.
Wilson developed the sewing machine; that Charles Goodyear discovered the process of vulcanising rubber; that Samuel Colt began the manufacture of the Colt fire-arms; and it was from near New Haven that Eli Whitney went to Georgia where he invented the cotton gin.
