Sewing Machines
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A chapter from an 1872 survey of American industry on the history and manufacture of sewing machines. It traces early patents from Weisenthal (1755) through Thimonier, Greenough and Elias Howe (1846), classifies machines by stitch type (lock-stitch, double chain-stitch, single-thread chain-stitch) and reports prize verdicts from the Paris Exposition of 1867 and American and Maryland Institute committees. Much of the text promotes the Weed Sewing Machine Company of Hartford and its G. F. "General Favorite" machine, and it closes on falling prices, factory organization and the social effects of the machine. It includes engravings, among them a view of the Weed factory.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1872
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 9
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