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The workshop owner invited the demoralised inventor to take a look at another product which was also struggling: a sewing machine. It did not work very well. Nobody had succeeded in making one ...

This madman was no other than Barthlemy Thimonnier, the inventor of the first sewing machine. He was born at Abreste in the year 1793, and was the son of a dyer of Lyons. It is an old custom with ...

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NELSON, C.J. -- These suits are founded upon two reissued patents to A.B. Wilson, for improvements in the feed motion of a sewing-machine. The original patent for the invention was granted 12th ...

The Pemberville Mental Culture Club held its first meeting of the season at the home of Rebecca Krukemyer on September 10th.

That’s how we feel about sewing machines. Sure, there’s a motor. There’s a needle and some thread. But how does the machine make a stitch? We always wondered, but after watching a recent ...

First come first served," is the rule in invention, and he who can bring out the first sewing machine motor,fully adapted to the requirements of the case, is a made man. Any such machine would ...

The action of making the lockstitch has been performed by a variety of mechanisms since the invention of the sewing machine, but in the majority of those you’ll encounter it is done through a ...

This sewing machine was one of the first ever manufactured by Singer. Singer sewing machines was founded by Issac Singer in 1850. This model was manufactured in 1865 in Singer's factory ...