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Elias Howe Jr. ( / haʊ /; July 9, 1819 – October 3, 1867) was an American inventor best known for his creation of the modern lockstitch sewing machine . Early life. 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.
Jul 5, 2024 · Elias Howe was an American inventor whose sewing machine helped revolutionize garment manufacture in the factory and in the home. Interested in machinery since childhood, Howe learned the machinist trade and worked in a cotton machinery factory in Lowell, Mass., and later in Cambridge.
Dec 19, 2018 · Elias Howe Jr. (1819–1867) was an inventor of one of the first working sewing machines. This Massachusetts man began as an apprentice in a machine shop and came up with an important combination of elements for the first lock stitch sewing machine.
May 14, 2012 · Elias Howe patented the first ever lockstitch sewing machine in the world in 1846. His invention helped the mass production of sewing machines and clothing. That in turn revolutionized the sewing industry and freed women from some of the drudgery of daily life at the time. Howe's story is a brief but turbulent one.
May 17, 2018 · Elias Howe (1819-1867), American inventor, is credited with designing the first workable sewing machine, an invention which revolutionized garment and shoe manufacture. Elias Howe was born in Spencer, Mass., where his father operated a gristmill and sawmill.
At 18, late in 1837, Elias Howe as journeyman entered a machine shop at 11 Cornhill, Boston, kept by Daniel Davis. Howe’s employer manufactured optical instruments and was noted as a skilled repairer of intricate mechanical inventions.
Son of an English immigrant farmer, Elias Howe Jr. pioneered the lock stitch sewing machine, and filed what was only the fourth US patent for a sewing machine on 10 September 1846, at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Few inventions have changed everyday life as radically as the sewing machine. Altering an important element of daily life, the sewing machine was an innovation on a personal yet universal level.
Elias Howe Jr. of Cambridge, Massachusetts. While working as a journeyman machinist, Elias Howe Jr. wrestled for years to find a way to mechanize sewing. With the family pinched by poverty, his wife sewed for others by hand at home. Watching her sew, Howe visualized ways to mechanize the process.
National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductee Elias Howe invented the first practical sewing machine, proving to be five times faster than the swiftest hand sewers.
