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Timeline of clothing and textiles technology.
See also List of themed timelines, Timeline of invention.
- 1733 - John Kay patents the flying shuttle loom
- 1764 - James Hargreaves invents the Spinning Jenny
- 1794 - Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin
- 1801 - Joseph-Marie Jacquard invents the Jacquard punched card loom
- 1816 - Francis Cabot Lowell builds the first power loom in America.
- 1856 - William Perkin invents the first synthetic dye
- 1946 - Marion Donovan invents the first paper disposable diaper
