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 ...

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 ...

Before that day, the idea of sewing by the aid of a machine had never occurred to him. ELIAS HOWE, the inventor of the sewing-machine, was born in 1819, at Spencer, in Massachusetts, where his ...

I n 1846, Elias Howe Jr. was awarded the first American patent for a lockstitch sewing machine. It was an invention that would dramatically increase the productivity of the apparel industry, free ...

Howe had a patent model by 1846, but each of his machines had to be hand-produced and could not be manufactured in mass numbers. The first really successful American sewing machine was invented by ...

On September 10, 1846, Elias Howe was awarded the first U.S. patent for a sewing machine using a lockstitch design. Even though Howe was a poor businessman, he did go on to enjoy the benefits of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Q. 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 ...

ELIAS HOWE, Jr., the inventor of the sewing-machine, died at his residence in Brooklyn on Thursday night in his forty-eighth year. His name is a familiar one in every household in this country ...