This article was originally published with the title “ Thimonnier, Inventor of the Sewing Machine ” in SA Supplements Vol. 26 No. 673supp (November 1888), p. 10758 doi:10.1038 ...

ELIAS HOWE, the inventor of the sewing-machine, was born in 1819, at Spencer, in Massachusetts, where his father was a farmer and miller. There was a grist-mill, a saw-mill, ...

Sewing Machine Invention, (First;) J. R. Chapin's Statement. REAL INVENTOR OF THE SEWING MACHINE; A Claim of Priority Asserted for Walter Hunt of This City.

Elias was born in 1819 on a farm near Spencer, Mass., and moved to Boston at age 18 to find work in a machine shop. This is where he began Skip to ...

Duinn Shevock has had a Detroit Free Press-branded sewing machine in her Cedar Springs home ... But it wasn’t until 1790 that the first workable sewing machine was made by British inventor ...

In 1851, another inventor named Isaac Singer, patented a new sewing machine that improved Howe's original design. Whereas Howe's machine had the fabric hanging vertically, held by pins, Singer's ...