School profile information is based on government data. School information is provided by the government. This information relates to schools run by this school's state operating agency. Many ...

Harold Howe II, who oversaw the advent of an unprecedented federal role in precollegiate education, died Nov. 30 in Hanover, N.H. He was 84. Mr. Howe served as the U.S. commissioner of education ...

For years local historians and newspaper columnists (I'm pointing at myself) have had some laughs at the expense of Deacon Elias Howe, the man credited with the founding of Salinas. But the story ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here are the tales of two of them. In 1846, Elias Howe Jr. was awarded the first American patent for a lockstitch sewing machine. It was an invention that would dramatically increase the ...