A worker using a gin could do the work of 50 people cleaning cotton by hand. Because of the gin, planters could now grow cotton at a huge profit. Eli Whitney actually made the Cotton gin April 1793.
Stapafell is a volcanic mountain on the south side of SnÃ¦fellsjÃ¶kull. This palagonitic pyramide is 526 m in height og rather eroded at the sides. On the top of the mountain is Fellskross, which was a sign of holy powers at the times of the vikings. It is said that the mountain is home of hidden people, also called elves.
Bluestone is a cultural or commercial name for a number of dimension or building stone varieties, including: 1  basalt in Victoria, Australia, and in New Zealand; 2  the dolerite of Stonehenge in Britain.3  a feldspathic sandstone in the U.S. and Canada;here are two distinct building materials called bluestone in Australia. In Victoria, what is known as bluestone is a basalt or olivine basalt. It was one of the favoured building materials during the Victorian Gold Rush period of the 1850s.