Several inventions in textile machinery
occurred in a relatively short time period during the industrial revolution.
1733 Flying
shuttle invented by John Kay - an
improvement to looms that enabled weavers to weave faster.
1742 Cotton
mills were first opened in England.
1764 Spinning
jennyinvented
by James Hargreaves - the first machine to improve upon the spinning wheel.
1764 Water
frameinvented
by Richard Arkwright - the first powered textile machine.
1769
Arkwright patented the water frame.
1770
Hargreaves patented the Spinning Jenny.
1773
The first all-cotton textiles were produced in factories.
1779
Crompton invented the spinning mule
that allowed for greater control over the weaving process.
1785
Cartwright patented the power loom.
It
was improved upon by William Horrocks, known for his invention of the variable
speed batton in 1813.
1787
Cotton goods production had increased 10 fold since 1770.
1789 Samuel
Slater brought textile machinery design
to the US.
1790
Arkwright built the first steam powered textile factory in Nottingham,
England.
1792
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin -
a
machine that automated the separation of cottonseed from the short-staple
cotton fiber.
1804Joseph
Marie Jacquard invented the Jacquard Loom that weaved complex designs.
Jacquard invented a way of automatically controlling the warp and weft
threads on a silk loom by recording patterns of holes in a string of cards*.
1813 William
Horrocks
invented the variable speed batton (for an improved power loom).
1856
William Perkin invented the first synthetic dye.