During the late 1700s through the mid-1800s, there was a revolution that started. Many people came up with ideas while others just worked off those ideas. Many of those inventors during this revolution include Eli Whitney, John Deere, Jethro Wood, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, Francis Lowell, and Samuel Slater. Many inventions and innovations were created during this period of time The beginning of the revolution dealt with cotton and the way it was picked and processed. In the beginning, cotton was picked by hand by slaves on plantations and later had to be separated in order to get the out seeds from the actual cotton that would get manufactured. Once the fibers have been separated (by hand) from the seeds, it had to be spun