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
