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  2. Sewing machine - Wikipedia

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    The first machine to combine all the disparate elements of the previous half-century of innovation into the modern sewing machine was the device built by English inventor John Fisher in 1844, a little earlier than the very similar machines built by Isaac Merritt Singer in 1851, and the lesser known Elias Howe, in 1845. However, due to the ...

  3. Sewing - Wikipedia

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    By the early 1840s, other early sewing machines began to appear. Barthélemy Thimonnier introduced a simple sewing machine in 1841 to produce military uniforms for France's army; shortly afterward, a mob of tailors broke into Thimonnier's shop and threw the machines out of the windows, believing the machines would put them out of work. [15]

  4. Singer Corporation - Wikipedia

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    The Singer sewing machine was the first complex standardised technology to be mass marketed. It was not the first sewing machine, and its patent in 1851 led to a patent battle with Elias Howe, inventor of the lockstitch machine. This eventually resulted in a patent sharing accord among the major firms. [18]

  5. Barthélemy Thimonnier - Wikipedia

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    Barthélemy Thimonnier (19 August 1793 in L'Arbresle, Rhône - 5 July 1857 in Amplepuis) was a French inventor, who is attributed with the invention of the first sewing machine that replicated sewing by hand. He was born in L'Arbresle, in Rhône in France. [4]

  6. Elias Howe - Wikipedia

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    Elias Howe's sewing machine won a gold medal at the Paris Exhibition of 1867, [1] and that same year he was awarded the Légion d'honneur by Napoleon III for his invention. [9] In 1873, Benjamin P. Howe sold the Howe Sewing Machine Co. factory and name to the Howe Machine Co., which merged the two companies.

  7. Isaac Singer - Wikipedia

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    Isaac Merritt Singer (October 27, 1811 – July 23, 1875) was an American inventor, actor, and businessman. He made important improvements in the design of the sewing machine [1] and was the founder of what became one of the first American multi-national businesses, the Singer Sewing Machine Company.

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    Tracy Morgan was excited to join the cast of Saturday Night Live back in 1996.. Feeling at home on the cast would be another story, however. The comedian came in eager to share a different ...

  9. List of sewing machine brands - Wikipedia

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    A rare Gem-brand sewing machine produced by the White Sewing Machine Company, circa 1887. A sewing machine is a machine used to stitch fabric and other materials together with thread. [1] Sewing machines were invented during the first Industrial Revolution to decrease the amount of manual sewing work performed in clothing companies. [2]

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