Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Sewing Machine Patent Model. Patent No. 4,750, issued September 10, 1846. Elias Howe Jr. of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Agent information: F.C. Henderson Co., Boston, MA. Composed of images and text. Models represented: Howe improved style 14-NA and 14-NH. Title from cover. Trade catalog for the new Howe improved ...
IN Cornhill, Boston, thirty years ago, there was a shop for the manufacture and repair of nautical instruments and philosophical apparatus, kept by Ari Davis. Mr. Davis was a very ingenious mechanic, ...
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In the early years of the 19th century, the invention of the sewing machine was all but inevitable. Factories were filling with seamstresses and tailors, and savvy inventors and entrepreneurs around ...
Many people dream of being rich and successful. But some people have had dreams — literal dreams — that led them to riches and success. Here are the tales of two of them. In 1846, Elias Howe Jr. was ...