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  2. Charles Fredrick Wiesenthal - Wikipedia

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    Invention of mechanical sewing machine Charles Fredrick Wiesenthal (1726–1789) [ 1 ] was a German-American physician and inventor who was awarded the patent for the first known mechanical device for sewing in 1755.

  3. Sewing-Machine Needles - Wikipedia

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    Sewing-Machine Needles, also known as Rocas Ministro Ezcurra [1) is a group of three prominent rock needles, the highest 45 m above water, lying close southeast of Rancho Point, Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands

  4. Allen B. Wilson - Wikipedia

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    The latest type of this machine used a vertical needle bar and a straight needle. [ 2 ] Wilson had the good fortune soon after securing his patent to interest Nathaniel Wheeler, a young carriage maker who possessed some capital, in his machine, and out of this connection grew the great house of Wheeler & Wilson.

  5. Elias Howe - Wikipedia

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    Elias Howe Jr. was born on July 9, 1819, to Dr. Elias Howe Sr (1792–1867) and Polly (Bemis) Howe (1791–1871) in Spencer, Massachusetts.Howe spent his childhood and early adult years in Massachusetts, where he apprenticed in a textile factory in Lowell beginning in 1835.

  6. Hand embroidery machine - Wikipedia

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    The hand embroidery machine is a multi-needle, satin stitch embroidery machine. Multi-needle refers to fact that the machine has up to two rows of needles. Each needle creates a copy of the design. The satin stitch is created by passing the threaded needle completely through the fabric. The hand machine is the predecessor of the schiffli ...

  7. Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph - Wikipedia

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    The five-needle telegraph with twenty possible needle positions was six codes short of being able to encode the complete alphabet. The letters omitted were C, J, Q, U, X and Z. [32] A great selling point of this telegraph was that it was simple to use and required little operator training. There is no code to learn, as the letter being sent was ...

  8. History of geography - Wikipedia

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    The term critical geography has been in use since at least 1749, when the book Geography reformed: a new system of general geography, according to an Accurate Analysis of the science in four parts dedicated a chapter to the topic titled "of Critical Geography."

  9. Barthélemy Thimonnier - Wikipedia

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    Thimonniers Stitch - a chain stitch formed with a barbed needle. 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.