The first record in the Patent-office Reports of the invention of sewing-machines is under the date of February, 1842. This parent was granted for making what is termed the "shoemaker's switch in ...

Lawrence “Larry” Klope’s passion and knack for working with antique sewing and knitting machines may be innate. Perhaps his ...

Mr. HOWE says the invention is worth more than half a million ... This patent largely increases the price of sewing-machines to the poor women who mainly use them. Why should they be compelled ...

It was during his time with Davis, who had suggested that anyone who invented a practical sewing machine would end up rich, that Howe began working towards the possibility of inventing a ...

This sampling of patent models from the Textile Collection describes the two major groupings, textile machinery and sewing machines. In both groups, the examination of the models begins with the ...

ON Mar. 8, M. Herriott, the former premier of France, unveiled a monument at Lyons to Barth©lemy Thimonnier, the inventor of the sewing machine. Thimonnier applied for his first patent in ...