Here's something new to me
08-02-2014, 09:53 PM
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Here's something new to me
08-03-2014, 08:14 AM
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I think I celebrate a personal "sewing machine day" several times a month. This is a day I spend looking at attachments and taking machine down from the shelf to admire. Don't actually get any sewing done on this day, just having fun with the machines and attachments.
08-03-2014, 09:24 AM
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i get a monthly magazine from our rural electric company. this year they started running a little thing about each special holiday that was coming in the month ahead. was so fun ...for a while. but now i never remember to tear open the mag as soon as it arrives and search for this months teivia goodies to pester friends & relatives with.
....they're probably quite glad
....they're probably quite glad
08-03-2014, 12:57 PM
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great point we read so much hear say on who when and where... afew nights ago I went Howes fame in this. 2 reports one patent file in USA under howes name. 2nd file in england under some other guys name, later in the usa..
again reading years ago Howe stole the plans from another guy ..
Myself .. I'm pretty sure The world is really flat, cause at about 20 yrs old I fell off the edge. I think ??
again reading years ago Howe stole the plans from another guy ..
Myself .. I'm pretty sure The world is really flat, cause at about 20 yrs old I fell off the edge. I think ??
08-03-2014, 06:05 PM
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Howe Did not steal anything...
Elias Howe is credited with the invention of the sewing machine. At the time, the earlier french patents of Barthélemy Thimonnier and a few others were not known because of misfiling. They were truly the first working machines.
There was an american inventor named Walter Hunt who actually developed an Almost working machine containing the three key ingredients; eye pointed needle, shuttle for 2nd thread to make lockstitch, and a feed to advance fabric. The legend says that he did not finish or patent the design due to family (seamstress) concerns.
Mr Hunt's design was not finished or functional, so much so that even when Singer tried to use The Hunt machine to prove in court that Howe did not invent the first, the Hunt machine could not be made to function, despite efforts at re-engineering.
Howe got credit because of the patents. but did not even make his first production machine for more than a decade because of the legal stuff with the other makers who were using his patented designs without royalties.
Elias Howe is credited with the invention of the sewing machine. At the time, the earlier french patents of Barthélemy Thimonnier and a few others were not known because of misfiling. They were truly the first working machines.
There was an american inventor named Walter Hunt who actually developed an Almost working machine containing the three key ingredients; eye pointed needle, shuttle for 2nd thread to make lockstitch, and a feed to advance fabric. The legend says that he did not finish or patent the design due to family (seamstress) concerns.
Mr Hunt's design was not finished or functional, so much so that even when Singer tried to use The Hunt machine to prove in court that Howe did not invent the first, the Hunt machine could not be made to function, despite efforts at re-engineering.
Howe got credit because of the patents. but did not even make his first production machine for more than a decade because of the legal stuff with the other makers who were using his patented designs without royalties.
08-03-2014, 08:29 PM
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