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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