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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We're relying on the experts to answer this one and who better than the folks from the International Sewing Machine Collectors' Society? Historians of the sewing machine's early days can argue for ...

Elias was born in 1819 on a farm near Spencer, Mass., and moved to Boston at age 18 to find work in a machine shop. This is where he began tinkering with machines. The machine that made him a legend ...

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Composed of images and text. Models represented: Howe 1, 2, 3, 4, B & C. Title from title page. This is a history of the sewing machine though the final emphasis is ...

Although Singer was not the first sewing machine invented, it was the first to introduce the presser foot, which created a faster stitching speed. Although Singer was not the first sewing machine ...