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.
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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, ...
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Many people dream of being rich and successful. But some people have had dreams — literal dreams — that led them to riches and success. Here are the tales of two of them. In 1846, Elias Howe Jr. was ...
ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. – Clearly, this old sewing machine is a relic. Quite an antique. It’s a Howe model, dating back to at least 1872, and ranks among some of the first sewing machines ever made. It’s ...
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, ...
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