Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Sewing Machine Patent Model. Patent No. 4,750, issued September 10, 1846. Elias Howe Jr. of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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, ...

Many people dream of being rich and successful. But some people have had dreams — literal dreams — that led them to riches and success. Here are the tales of two of them. In 1846, Elias Howe Jr. was ...

The inquiry "Who invented the sewing machine?" has kept a lot of people talking for many, many years by many different people in many different sewing communities, and rightfully so. The sewing ...

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For years local historians and newspaper columnists (I'm pointing at myself) have had some laughs at the expense of Deacon Elias Howe, the man credited with the founding of Salinas. But the story of ...

On Sept. 10, 1846, Elias Howe received a patent for his sewing machine. In 1919 New York welcomed home Gen. John Pershing and 25,000 soldiers who had served in the U.S. 1st Division during World War I ...