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  2. Allen B. Wilson - Wikipedia

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    His patent was the fifteenth recorded for an improved sewing machine. While his application was pending. parties owning an interest in a machine patented in 1848 by John A. Bredshaw. of Lowell, Massachusetts , claimed that the latter's patent covered a double-pointed shuttle, and threatened to oppose Allen B. Wilson.

  3. Charles Fredrick Wiesenthal - Wikipedia

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    Charles Fredrick Wiesenthal (1726–1789) [1] was a German-American physician and inventor who was awarded the patent for the first known mechanical device for sewing in 1755. Weisenthal was born in the Kingdom of Prussia, but lived in England at the time of invention. He lived from 1755 to 1789 in Baltimore. [1]

  4. Helen Blanchard - Wikipedia

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    1900- Sewing Machine Needle [23] This invention is a type of needle used in sewing machines where one or more thread is used to form stitches. The needle has the ability to pierce the goods to be sewed, and contains a notch that supplies another thread to create the stitch.

  5. Sewing machine - Wikipedia

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    Diagram of a modern sewing machine Animation of a modern sewing machine as it stitches. A sewing machine is a machine used to sew fabric and materials together with thread. Sewing machines were invented during the first Industrial Revolution to decrease the amount of manual sewing work performed in clothing companies.

  6. Wheeler & Wilson - Wikipedia

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    Wheeler and Wilson Number 3 Sewing Machine from about 1872. In 1852 Wilson patented his four-motion feed, which, as its name indicates, had four distinct motions: two vertical and two horizontal. [2] The machines' feed bar is first raised, then carried forward, then dropped, and finally gets drawn back by a spring to its original position. [2]

  7. Timeline of United States inventions (before 1890) - Wikipedia

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    The basic machine, which was called Stencil-Pens, was invented by Thomas Alva Edison and patented in the United States in 1876. It was originally intended to be used as an engraving device, but Samuel O'Reilly discovered that Edison's machine could be modified and used to introduce ink into the skin, and later patented it as a tattooing machine ...

  8. Elias Howe - Wikipedia

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    However, Howe originated significant refinements to the design concepts of his predecessors, and on September 10, 1846, he was awarded the first United States patent (U.S. patent 4,750) for a sewing machine using a lockstitch design. His machine contained the three essential features common to most modern machines: a needle with the eye at the ...

  9. Beulah Louise Henry - Wikipedia

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    One of Henry's most famous inventions is the "Double Chain Stitch Sewing Machine". She wanted to make a sewing machine that wouldn’t tangle the thread. Bobbins were the traditional method of feeding the bottom layer of thread in a sewing machine but need to be rewound frequently and the thread can be prone to snapping which is inconvenient.