The Greatest Invention of the Napoleonic Age
In the latest episode of The Napoleonicise, Dr Kit Chapman, Marcus Cribb, Rachel Stark and Beatrice de Graaf join me to champion the causes of the steam engine, shrapnel, vaccination, and state police as the greatest invention of the Napoleonic era.
Listen at: https://anchor.fm/the-napoleonicist/episodes/The-Greatest-Invention-of-the-Napoleonic-Age-evadtu
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Eli Whitney's cotton gin (short for 'engine') was invented and patented in the 1790s. It separated the seeds from the cotton, thus eliminating a labor-intensive process.