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

Important Singer Sewing Machines . Singer sewing machines were constantly improved and updated. Since the first machines were produced in the 1850s, thousands were sold to eager c ...

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.

However, the first successful sewing machine was built in 1830, forty years after Saint first drew and described a machine. Barthelemy Thimonnier, a French tailor, invented the machine that used a ...

HOWE's invention, the germ of all successful machines, used the shuttle in forming the stich, and it was considered indispensable to its successful working. In 1849, Mr. BLODGRTT, of Boston ...

-- The new invention, known as the " Weed Lock-stitch Sewing Machine," is rapidly growing in public favor. Since its introduction, no other machine has increased in popularity more steadily.

1846: Elias Howe patents the first practical sewing machine and threads his way into the fabric of history. French tailor Barthelemy Thimonnier patented a device in 1830 that mechanized the ...

This article was originally published with the title “Patent Law Suits—Sewing Machines” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 8 No. 49 (August 1853), p. 389 doi:10.1038 ...