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  2. Elias Howe - Wikipedia

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    After that it was easy. That is the true story of an important incident in the invention of the sewing machine. [4] Despite securing his patent, Howe had considerable difficulty finding investors in the United States to finance production of his invention, so his elder brother Amasa Bemis Howe traveled to England in October 1846 to seek financing.

  3. Allen B. Wilson - Wikipedia

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    Allen Benjamin Wilson (1823–1888) was an American inventor famous for designing, building and patenting some of the first successful sewing machines. [1] He invented both the vibrating and the rotating shuttle designs which, in turns, dominated all home lockstitch sewing machines. With various partners in the 19th century he manufactured ...

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

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    Walter Hunt invented the first lock-stitch sewing machine in 1833. Hunt lost interest and did not patent his invention. [66] In 1846, Elias Howe secured a patent on an original lock-stitch machine, and failed to manufacture and market it. Isaac Singer infringed on Howe's patent to make his own machine, making him wealthy. Elias Howe filed a ...

  5. Charles Fredrick Wiesenthal - Wikipedia

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    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] For his invention of a double pointed needle with an eye at one end, he received the British Patent No. 701 (1755). [2] Barthélemy Thimonnier reinvented the sewing machine in 1830.

  6. Sewing Machine Combination - Wikipedia

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    Of the nine patents pooled, three were particularly crucial: the lockstitch, the four-motion feed, and the combination of a vertical needle with horizontal sewing surface. [5] In addition to its four member companies, dozens of other companies licensed its patents, for which they paid royalties and submitted annual production reports. [6 ...

  7. Sewing machine - Wikipedia

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    The first sewing machine, invented by Thomas Saint, London, 1790. In 1790, the English inventor Thomas Saint invented the first sewing machine design. [3] His machine was meant to be used on leather and canvas material. It is likely that Saint had a working model, but there is no surviving evidence of one.

  8. 1846 in science - Wikipedia

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    June 28 – Adolphe Sax patents the saxophone. [13] September 10 – Elias Howe is awarded the first United States patent for a sewing machine using a lockstitch design. [14] Scottish-born engineer Robert William Thomson is granted his first patent for a pneumatic tyre, in France.

  9. Bobbin driver - Wikipedia

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    1851 by Allen B. Wilson [8] Figures from Wilson's patent 9041, showing rotary hook and bobbin: Rotary hook machines hold their bobbin stationary, and continuously rotate the thread hook around it. The design was popularized in the White Sewing Machine Company's 'Family Rotary' sewing machine [9] and Singer's models 95 and 115. [10]