Timeline of clothing and textiles technology

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