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Timeline of clothing and textiles technology

Timeline of clothing and textiles technology.

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

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