Removing seeds from cotton plants was a slow job until Eli

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Removing seeds from cotton plants was a slow job until Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. What is a cotton gin?

1. a drink
2. a book
3. a machine
4. a cloth

Correct Option: C

The cotton gin is a device for removing the seeds from cotton fiber. Such machines have been around for centuries. Eli Whitney's machine of 1794, however, was the first to clean short-staple cotton, and a single device could produce up to fifty pounds of cleaned cotton in a day.