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29 Σεπ 2024 · Elias Howe was an American inventor whose sewing machine helped revolutionize garment manufacture in the factory and in the home. Interested in machinery since childhood, Howe learned the machinist trade and worked in a cotton machinery factory in Lowell, Mass., and later in Cambridge.
Elias Howe Jr. (/ h aʊ /; July 9, 1819 – October 3, 1867) was an American inventor best known for his creation of the modern lockstitch sewing machine.
Elias Howe Jr. (1819–1867) was an inventor of one of the first working sewing machines. This Massachusetts man began as an apprentice in a machine shop and came up with an important combination of elements for the first lock stitch sewing machine.
Though born but 27 years before, Howe patented, September 10, 1846, 73 years ago, the completed creation of his genius, a mechanism that revolutionized industry — the sewing machine, invented in Cambridge.
Within two years, by May 1845, Howe had a machine that was sewing seams. By July he finished his first two suits of wool clothes—one for George Fisher and one for himself. But to do more than his predecessors had been able to do, Howe had to interest the public in his machine.
Elias Howe invented the first practical sewing machine. Born in Spencer, Massachusetts, he spent his childhood and early adult years in Massachusetts. He became a skilled machinist, apprenticing in a textile factory and then for a master mechanic.
Inspired by the challenges faced by garment workers, Howe set out to create a sewing machine. After five years of relentless labor, he finally obtained a patent for his invention in 1846. Arrival in England and Legal Battles
