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1733John Kay invents the flying shuttle enabling weavers to works faster
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1742First cotton mills open in England
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1764Lancashire weaver, James Hargreaves, invents the spinning jenny
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1764Richard Arkwright invents the water frame - the first powered textile machine
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1768Fearing cheaper competition from his Spinning Jenny, Lancashire weavers break into the house of James Hargreaves and destroy his machines
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1769Richard Arkwright patents the water frame
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1770.Jul.12James Hargreaves patents a 16-spindle Spinning Jenny (invented in 1764)
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1773First all-cotton textiles produced in factories
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1778Death of Lancashire weaver and inventor of the Spinning Jenny, James Hargreaves (c.1720-)
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1779Crompton invents the spinning mule allowing greater control over the weaving process
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1785Invention of the power loom by Edmund Cartwright
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1787Annual production of cotton goods ten times that of 1770 in Britain
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1789Samuel Slater imports US-designed textile machinery to Britain
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1790Richard Arkwright builds the first steam powered textile factory in Nottingham
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1792Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin
- automating separation of cottonseed from the short-staple cotton fiber
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1804Joseph Marie Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom, weaving complex designs
- the warp and weft threads on a silk loom controlled automatically by recording patterns of holes in a string of cards
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1813William Horrocks invents the variable speed batton
Improving the power loom invented by Edmund Cartwright in 1785
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1856William Perkin invents the first synthetic dye
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