Timeline of clothing and textiles technology

pre-history - spindle used to create yarn from fibres
(unknown) - loom
500 to 1000 AD - spinning wheel in use in India
1733 - John Kay patents the Flying Shuttle
1738 - Lewis Paul patents the draw roller
1764 - James Hargreaves or Thomas Highs invents the Spinning Jenny (patented 1770)
1769 - Richard Arkwright's Water Frame.
1779 - Samuel Crompton invents the Spinning Mule.
1784 - Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom.
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

See also