Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Sewing Machine Patent Model. Patent No. 4,750, issued September 10, 1846. Elias Howe Jr. of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Do you have a sewing machine at home? The birth of these machines not only revolutionised the sewing industry, but also ensured the beginning of the first proper sewing machine industry. Credit for ...

IN Cornhill, Boston, thirty years ago, there was a shop for the manufacture and repair of nautical instruments and philosophical apparatus, kept by Ari Davis. Mr. Davis was a very ingenious mechanic, ...

Q. While visiting the Smithsonian Institution, we saw our Elias J. Howe sewing machine. Only theirs did not have the beautiful mother-of-pearl inlay that ours has. We find three patent dates on ours — ...

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SEWING needles of bone date back to prehistoric times, and the steel needle made its first appearance in Britain in the sixteenth century. The speed of expert hand-sewing, thirty stitches per minute, ...

On the second floor of the Nevada State Museum located in the history gallery, you'll find one of the earliest known Singer sewing machines. It has a patent date of 1849 stenciled on the side. However ...