1846: Elias Howe patents the first practical sewing machine and threads his way into the fabric of history. French tailor Barthelemy Thimonnier patented a device in 1830 that mechanized the ...

There are several men responsible for the evolution of the zipper: Elias Howe, the inventor of the sewing machine, patented the “Automatic, continuous clothing closure” in 1851 — but it ...

It was far more than a labor saving device — or a job replacing device — even though the earliest models of Elias Howe’s sewing machine of the 1840s could stitch about seven times faster ...