Commercial sewing machines began to replace workers by the 1830s, but it was not until 1843 that Elias Howe, a Boston resident, patented a lock stitch sewing machine suitable for home use.

manufacture sewing machines using the eye pointed needle and two t[???]s obliged to pay him a [???] The patent of EIJAS HOWE. Jr., covers the made of making the stitch termed the "lock stitch ...

The new invention, known as the " Weed Lock-stitch Sewing Machine," is rapidly growing in public favor. Since its introduction, no other machine has increased in popularity more steadily.

Here are the tales of two of them. In 1846, Elias Howe Jr. was awarded the first American patent for a lockstitch sewing machine. It was an invention that would dramatically increase the ...

In 1846, he received the first U.S. patent for a sewing machine using a lockstitch, but his idea was appropriated by others who sold similar machines. The inventor's financial prospects did not ...

The use of the sewing-machine has already become far ... A shirt manufactory in New-Haven, Ct., uses 500 of the lockstitch machines. In Troy, N.Y., and vicinity, upwards of 3,000 of the same ...

Barthelemy Thimonnier, a French tailor, invented the machine that used a hooked needle and thread, creating a chain stitch. The first American lockstitch sewing machine was invented in 1832 by ...

Credit for these should go to American Elias Howe, best known for the creation of the modern lockstitch sewing machine. Born on July 29, 1819, in Massachusetts, Howe spent most of his childhood ...