The Cotton Gin

Standing out in the scorching southern heat all day picking cotton by hand is not exactly what I would call fun. When i heard that Eli Whitney had invented a machine that would process the cotton for me, I was estatic. Picking out the seeds by hand was very demanding, and it consumed lots of time. With the invention of the cotton gin, my job becomes easier. Instead of spending many hundreds of man hours picking thru the seeds, the white men can use the machine to sort out the seeds and eventually make more money by completing the process faster. Time is money, and by cutting down the time to perfect their crop, they can spend more time on selling it to other nations. This invention was a great idea. It has helped so much in the short time that we've had it, and I can expect many new things like this in the future.

When building a nation, ones country needs inventions like these to help build their economy. Everyone is always looking for the advantage over the competition which in this case would be the different nations of the world. In order to get this certain advantage, inventions such as the cotton gin are essential. They help speed up the production of goods which leads to more income for the econmy and more power for the nation. Time is money, and money is power. Inventions in technology even up to this day help bring revenue and build a better society for the American people to live in. To build a steady nation, you need people with good work ethic and smart ideas. This ethic and these ideas help a nation become stable and gain power in many different ways. The cotton gin was very important in the way America operated and how it became a rich powerful country.