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Sewing


1875 Isaac Merritt Singer, inventor (sewing machine), dies at 63

1866 1st U.S. company to make sewing needles by machine incorporated, Connecticut

1857 James Gibbs, Va, patents chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine

1855 Isaac Singer patents sewing machine motor

1854 Allen Wilson of Connecticut patents sewing machine to sew curving seams

1854 Charles Miller patents 1st U.S. sewing machine to stitch buttonholes

1851 Isaac Singer patents sewing machine

1846 Elias Howe patents sewing machine

1842 1st known sewing machine patented in U.S., John Greenough, Washington D.C.

1819 Elias Howe, Spencer Massachusetts, invented sewing machine

1811 Issac Merrit Singer, inventor, 1st practical home sewing machine



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