<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Whitney" id="mwWA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Eli Whitney">Eli Whitney</a> is granted a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent" id="mwWQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Patent">patent</a> for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_gin" id="mwWg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Cotton gin">cotton gin</a>.<sup about="#mwt51" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"}}' id="cite_ref-8" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_14#cite_note-8" id="mwWw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 8;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwXA">[8]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"><cite about="#mwt48" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFHoward_B._Rockman2004">Howard B. Rockman (26 July 2004). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=6B88P-32IIQC&amp;pg=PA475" id="mwB6I" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwB6M">Intellectual Property Law for Engineers and Scientists</i></a>. John Wiley &amp; Sons. p.<span id="mwB6Q" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>475. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB6U" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwB6Y" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0-471-69739-8" id="mwB6c" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-471-69739-8"><bdi id="mwB6g">978-0-471-69739-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt48" class="Z3988" id="mwB6k" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Intellectual+Property+Law+for+Engineers+and+Scientists&amp;rft.pages=475&amp;rft.pub=John+Wiley+%26+Sons&amp;rft.date=2004-07-26&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-471-69739-8&amp;rft.au=Howard+B.+Rockman&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D6B88P-32IIQC%26pg%3DPA475&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMarch+14"></span></span>