Discover the true story behind the sewing machine's invention. Explore its rich history, key inventors like Elias Howe and ...

According to Wikipedia, the English inventor Thomas Saint designed the first sewing machine in 1790. It used a single-thread chain stitch and was used for sewing leather into saddles and canvas into ...

These commercial sewing machines were built in Orson C. Phelps’s machine shop in Boston. The head, base cams, and gear wheels of the machine were made of cast iron; to fit together, these parts had to ...

Howe’s patent claims were upheld in court to allow his claim to control the combination of the eye-pointed needle with a shuttle to form a lockstitch. Howe met with limited success in marketing his ...

Home Children An eye for an i #542 How Howe changed the sewing industry On September 10, 1846, Elias Howe was awarded the first U.S. patent for a sewing machine using a lockstitch design.