After graduating from Yale, Whitney went south to teach school, and while visiting on a Georgia plantation he invented the cotton gin, a machine which put an end to the old method of separating seeds from the cotton by hand.
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- 惠特尼從耶魯大學(xué)畢業(yè)以后,在南方任教。 他在參觀(guān)佐治亞州一個(gè)種植園的時(shí)候,發(fā)明了軋棉機。 于是,手工脫籽的舊方法至此告終。