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In page Timeline of clothing and textiles technology:

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  • 1842 – John Greenough patents the first sewing machine in the United States.
  • 1844 – John Smith of Salford granted a patent for a shuttleless rapier loom.[citation needed]
  • 1846 – John Livesey adapts John Heathcoat's bobbinet machine into the curtain machine