Sewing Machine
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Article on the sewing machine from Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary (1876), pages 2099-2121. It surveys the machine's history and mechanics: early needle-through machines (Saint 1790, Thimonnier 1830, Greenough 1842), the work of Hunt and Howe, and the main stitch classes (chain-stitch and lock-stitch). Much of the article is a classified list of U.S. patents by number, name and date, covering shuttles, loop-takers, feed, tension, button-hole machines, needles, tables and cabinets. It closes with descriptions and illustrations of the Wheeler and Wilson, Wilson, Grover and Baker, Florence, Domestic, Singer and St. John machines, and of attachments such as hemmers, binders, corders, quilters, tuckers and rufflers.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1876
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 24
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