cotton gin

machine that separates cotton fibers from seeds
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cotton gin
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cotton gin

Summary

cotton gin ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (862 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • cotton gin is credited with the discovery of Eli Whitney[2].
  • cotton gin's image is recorded as Cotton gin EWM 2007.jpg[3].
  • cotton gin's subclass of is recorded as agricultural machinery[4].
  • cotton gin's Commons category is recorded as Cotton gins[5].
  • cotton gin's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1793-00-00T00:00:00Z[6].
  • cotton gin's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0ctvd[7].
  • cotton gin's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Cotton gin[8].
  • cotton gin's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300262919[9].
  • cotton gin's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/cotton-gin[10].
  • cotton gin's different from is recorded as ginning[11].
  • cotton gin's different from is recorded as lint[12].
  • cotton gin's NALT ID is recorded as 29631[13].
  • cotton gin's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as cotton-gins[14].
  • cotton gin's New Georgia Encyclopedia ID is recorded as history-archaeology/cotton-gins[15].
  • cotton gin's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[16].
  • cotton gin's Tennessee Encyclopedia ID is recorded as cotton-gins[17].
  • cotton gin's Mississippi Encyclopedia ID is recorded as cotton-gins[18].
  • cotton gin's Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging is recorded as 6969[19].
  • cotton gin's EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History ID is recorded as cotton-gin[20].
  • cotton gin's KBpedia ID is recorded as CottonGin[21].
  • cotton gin's TOPCMB ID is recorded as descarocador de algodao[22].
  • cotton gin's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 03120176-n[23].
  • cotton gin's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as agricultural-and-biological-sciences/cotton-gin[24].
  • cotton gin's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as engineering/cotton-gin[25].
  • cotton gin's Portable Antiquities Scheme object type ID is recorded as COTTON+GIN[26].

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Works and Contributions

cotton gin is credited with the discovery of Eli Whitney[2].

Why It Matters

cotton gin ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (862 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  20. [21] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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