All Textile Machinery Inventors

invented the hook and loop fastener which he named Velcro

He played an important role in the development of the earliest programmable loom (the "Jacquard loom"), which in turn played an important role in the development of other programmable machines, such as an early version of digital compiler used by IBM to develop the modern day computer.

In the United Kingdom, he was called "Slater the Traitor" and "Sam the Slate" because he brought British textile technology to the United States, modifying it for American use.

He is credited as the driving force behind the development of the spinning frame, known as the water frame after it was adapted to use water power; and he patented a rotary carding engine to convert raw cotton to 'cotton lap' prior to spinning.

Eli Whitney Jr. (December 8, 1765, January 8, 1825) was an American inventor, widely known for inventing the cotton gin in 1793, one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution that shaped the economy of the Antebellum South.

He graduated from Oxford University and went on to invent the power loom.

Samuel Crompton (3 December 1753-26 June 1827) was an English inventor and pioneer of the spinning industry.

Hargreaves is credited with inventing the spinning jenny in 1764.

William Lee (1563-1614) was an English inventor and alleged clergyman who invented the stocking frame knitting machine.

whose most important creation was the flying shuttle

best known for his creation of the modern lockstitch sewing machine

was the original inventor of Roller Spinning, the basis of the Water Frame

This machine made lace which was also called English net or bobbinet.

Prior to the introduction of the Mill engraving machine and the present methods of producing rainbow, or ombre effects, these were obtained by means of the ribbon roller, the invention of John Mercer, a pioneer in the calico-printing industry, whose name is a household one as the inventor of the process of mercerising cotton cloth.