While our poor tailor was starving in Europe, the sewing machine was being perfected on a new principle, in the United States, and in 1845, Elias Howe, Jr., obtained his pa'ent out of which he ...

A suit lor libel has been commenced against the " New York Tribune," by Elias Howe Jr., the patentee of the first machine for using a needle and shuttle in sewing. The suit is instituted because ...

Pictured is my Singer treadle sewing machine dating to about 1901, previously my mother's and my grandmother's. Many inventors modified and improved sewing machines through the 1800s. Elias Howe ...