This machine was invented in 1793 to speed up the removal of seeds from a certain raw fiber
[DOC] [TLE] Cotton Gins | New Georgia Encyclopedia [PAR] When Whitney first moved to Georgia in 1793, short-staple cotton had only 
recently ... of removing the sticky green seeds from the cotton fibers, which were 
short in length ... a working cotton gin that could produce up to fifty pounds of 
cotton daily.