Clothing Manufacturing
- Derby Rib (stocking manufacture) - Jedediah Strutt
- Flying shuttle - John Kay
- Mauveine, the first synthetic organic dye - William Henry Perkin
- Power loom - Edmund Cartwright
- Spinning frame - John Kay
- Spinning jenny - James Hargreaves
- Spinning mule - Samuel Crompton
- Polyester - John Rex Whinfield
- Sewing machine - Thomas Saint in 1790
- Water frame - Richard Arkwright
- Stocking frame - William Lee
- Warp-loom and Bobbinet - John Heathcoat
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