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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. Barthélemy Thimonnier - Wikipedia

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    The earliest sewing machine was actually patented by Thomas Saint in 1790. [citation needed] So Thimonnier's machine was not the first. Saint's contribution was not made public until 1874 when William Newton Wilson, himself a sewing machine manufacturer, found the drawings in the London Patent Office and built a machine which worked following ...

  4. Allen B. Wilson - Wikipedia

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    Allen Benjamin Wilson (1823–1888) was an American inventor famous for designing, building and patenting some of the first successful sewing machines. [1] He invented both the vibrating and the rotating shuttle designs which, in turns, dominated all home lockstitch sewing machines. With various partners in the 19th century he manufactured ...

  5. Timeline of clothing and textiles technology - Wikipedia

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    A copy of Barthélemy Thimonnier's sewing machine from about 1830. 1830 – Barthélemy Thimonnier develops the first functional sewing machine. 1833 – Walter Hunt invents the lockstitch sewing machine but, dissatisfied with its function, does not patent it. 1842 – Lancashire Loom developed by Bullough and Kenworthy, a semi automatic Power ...

  6. 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]

  7. 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]

  8. Josef Madersperger - Wikipedia

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    In 1807, he began development of the sewing machine, spending all his savings and leisure time on it. In 1814, he presented his first sewing machine, which imitated a human hand. Madersperger did not commercialize the 1815 granted privilege which expired after three years. By 1823, he was registered as a "former" middle-class tailor.

  9. Wheeler & Wilson - Wikipedia

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    In July 1874, the jury awarded the First Prize, a silver cup, on account of the "ease of working, the little noise, speed of executing work, and durability of the sewing machines made by the Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Company.", at the Bury Agricultural Show in August 1874 the first prize, at the Manchester and Liverpool Agricultural Show ...

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