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 ...

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 ...

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 ...