eene and her children in New York. He took a ship with them from New Haven to Savannah, Georgia. On the way he got very seasick. To add to that the ship ran aground below Hells Gate. Since he already used most of his money to take the boat he couldnt afford to take another. A few days later he joined several other passengers and took a wagon into the city. Once more he got sick but this time he came down with the small pox, a mild case though. Phineas Miller and Mrs. Greene took him to the doctor. After some rest he got better and was lucky enough to get some money from a friend. When he arrived in Mulberry Grove, Georgia he started thinking about plans for a machine to clean cotton. In only ten days he produced a small working model. The rest of the time was spent on perfecting it. There was one problem with the machine. When the cotton passed through the machine it got stuck at the end. One day he was sitting somewhere fiddling with the machine when he saw Mrs. Greene pull out a birdcage. This gave Eli Whitney the idea of metal wire to clean the cotton off the rollers. Once he perfected the cotton gin he showed it to his friends and they were amazed. One gin with one man and one horse working it could easily produce 50 times one man could do by hand. As you could imagine it didnt take long for someone to tell other people. The word got out and some one broke into his lab and saw the machine. But no one could reproduce it. The reason why people couldnt produce it was that the people who did see it didnt have an enough to make a good replicate of it. Once he unveiled it, some one for $10,000 immediately bought it. Ten thousand dollars was a lot of money back then. It allowed him to pay off his debt and start to produce more gins. Bigger and better gins were made. Some were powered by man, some steam engines, and some were powered by water. Now all gins are powered by electricity. Eli Whitney made so much money he didnt have to work anym...
