Lummus 80-Saw Cotton Gin
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
name: label: maker
content: F. H. Lummus Sons Co
notes: label: Description
content: This steam-powered cotton gin, usually called a ginstand, was produced by F. H. Lummus and Sons of Columbus, Georgia. It employed a system of 80 twelve-inch saws, a pneumatic elevator, and a single-cylinder feeder. It also used a single-stand condenser, which collected the lint (cotton) as it came out of a flue and discharged it in mat form. The mat of cotton lint was then put into a compress. This machine was manufactured around 1900.
label: Description
content: The Lummus gin and compress could produce one and a half bales of cotton every hour, or as many as 15 bales in a twelve-hour workday. Steam whistles signaled the beginning of a new day of ginning.
label: Description
content: Much information about the construction of the shed that housed the gin has been lost, but it may date to the 1880s. When land development threatened the structure, the owner contacted the Smithsonian about the 80-saw ginstand. Lummus Industries restored the gin.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Georgia, Columbus
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content: Work and Industry: Agriculture
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content: Agriculture
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Linda L. Green, J. Terrel Green, David L. Mincey, Jr., and Thomas M. Green
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0344.01
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0344.01
label: accession number
content: 1990.0344
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cotton gin
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)