While visiting the Smithsonian Institution, we saw our Elias J. Howe sewing machine. Only theirs did not have the beautiful mother-of-pearl inlay that ours has. We find three patent dates on ours ...

Howe got a $5 royalty for every machine sold in the United States and a dollar for each one sold elsewhere. That added up to $2 million, or $50 million in today's skins. Howe's 21-year patent and ...

4. That it was the first complete machine which, could be applied to the common art of sewing. All these are most excellent and conclusive reasons against the extension asked for. Mr. HOWE ...

Credit for these should go to American Elias Howe, best known for the creation of the modern lockstitch sewing machine. Born on July 29, 1819, in Massachusetts, Howe spent most of his childhood ...

For one thing, Isaac Merritt Singer could hardly claim to have invented the sewing machine. It was Elias Howe who created the original sewing-machine concept and patented it in 1846, charging ...

In the United States, the first practical sewing machine was produced by inventor Walter Hunt, but his device was not commercially successful. Elias Howe is usually credited with the invention of ...

the distraught Howe returned to his wife just in time to stand by her bedside as she died. Adding insult to injury, he learned that the sewing machine had proliferated in his absence – some ...

But few today realize that the name “Raphine” is derived from the ancient Greek word “Raphis,” which ... and who in 1858 perfected the modern-day sewing machine. Gibbs worked for his father at his ...

While visiting the Smithsonian Institution, we saw our Elias J. Howe sewing machine. Only theirs did not have the beautiful mother-of-pearl inlay that ours has. We find three patent dates on ours ...