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The flying shuttle is a mechanism invented by John Kay , which allows fabrics to be woven much faster and of larger sizes, dramatically increasing the productivity of looms and marking a turning point in the Industrial Revolution. -
The Spinning Jenny is a multi-spindle spinning machine invented by James Hargreaves in 1764 that revolutionized the textile industry by allowing a single worker to work with several people at once, increasing production and reducing labor. -
The spinning mule was an industrial machine invented by Samuel Crompton in 1779, which combined the best of Hargreaves' Jenny and Arkwright's Water Frame to produce finer, stronger hair automatically. -
The power loom is a machine invented by Edmund Cartwright in 1784 that automated the weaving process, using mechanical power to interlace threads and create fabrics much more quickly and efficiently than manual methods. -
The cotton gusher is a machine designed to separate cotton fibers from their seeds and other contaminants. A manual, slow, and laborious process. Invented by Eli Whitney in 1793. This machine revolutionized textile production by dramatically increasing the speed and efficiency of ginning. -
Reactive dyes are a type of synthetic dye, whose invention and development dates back to the 20th century, although the discovery of the first synthetic dyes, such as mauveine, was made by William Henry Perkin in 1856. -
The exact year or originator of the "roller press" is not specified, as it is not a common term for a specific device; however, similar concepts can be found, such as roller textile printing, which was used in the late 19th century, or the hair straightener, whose first modern design was by Lady Jennifer Campana Schofield in 1912, and the electric clothes iron, invented by Henry W. Seeley in 1882. -
The first overlock machine was patented in 1889 by Joseph Merrow of the Merrow Machine Company in the United States, an invention that emerged during the Industrial Revolution for large-scale textile production. -
The first electric scissors for the textile industry emerged in the early 20th century, although the exact date and specific inventor are difficult to determine, as it was an evolutionary process. However, the patent for the first motorized electric sewing scissors was granted to a man named H.H. Strout in 1929. -
Acrylic fiber was commercially developed by DuPont Corporation in 1941, under the trademark "Orlon." Although early research on polyacrylonitrile (the fiber's base polymer) dates back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it wasn't until the 1940s that DuPont achieved mass production.