I was going to say … the cotton gin is technically a peaceful invention. Doesn’t directly hurt anything.
HOWEVER, before WWII, there were really only three kinds of fabric: Cotton, Wool, and Silk. Nobody wears wool in humid climates, and silk has always been expensive. Before the cotton gin, the margins on cotton were so low that people were trying to get out of the business. When the cotton gin was produced, it allowed landowners to put more of their fields into growing it, and more labor. A higher demand for really cheap labor incentivized the slavery trade, especially in places where cotton could be grown.
All of those other inventions are even more directly related to warfare.
10 thoughts on “Sinister Skullduggery 24”
Jara
What the flip kind of brain parasite is that?
Programminder
well that is really is unexpected, now I do wonder just what are those horns according to Randy’s analisys?
Foxhack
Wouldn’t Steam Engine count as a metallurgical card?
nadaniel
Nah, that’s a blue card. The metallurgical cards are silver.
Freezer
His brain has cooling rods?
arthurinscales
not too sure about putting the cotton gin on there, doc
Kelephant
All of Charlottes faces in this page are fantastic.
waterfan2
I was going to say … the cotton gin is technically a peaceful invention. Doesn’t directly hurt anything.
HOWEVER, before WWII, there were really only three kinds of fabric: Cotton, Wool, and Silk. Nobody wears wool in humid climates, and silk has always been expensive. Before the cotton gin, the margins on cotton were so low that people were trying to get out of the business. When the cotton gin was produced, it allowed landowners to put more of their fields into growing it, and more labor. A higher demand for really cheap labor incentivized the slavery trade, especially in places where cotton could be grown.
All of those other inventions are even more directly related to warfare.
Math
Would that qualify them as antennae, I wonder?
gryphoneer
cut the ultra-jaded shtick ash, we all know you find powered flight cool. you literally helped build a rocket
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