MS LESSON/TUTORIAL: HISTORY OF SEWING MACHINE


Note by Evelyn Umeh
INTRODUCTION TO SEWING MACHINES

HISTORY:
1790: The first workable sewing machine was invented and patented by the British inventor Thomas Saint. The use of thread and needle and mechanical fingers.

1830: French Tailor, Barthelemy Thimonnier patented the first practical sewing machine.

1834: The earliest idea for a double thread was invented by Walter Hunt of newyork

1851: Isaac Singer patented the first rigid-arm sewing machines.

1856: the sewing machine combination was formed consisting of singer, howe, Wheeler & Wilson and Grover & Baker.

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