Sewing Machine Dbq

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1845: Elias Howe invented a new type of sewing machine. It stitched on both sides of the material.
1839: An Austrian tailor Josef Madersperger designed several machines during the early 1800’s including a machine to sew caps. He worked on building it but failed.
1830: A French man named Barthelemy Thimonneir was able to convince people about the usefulness of the machine and made a batch of machines to make uniforms for the French army.
1845: Elias Howes’ brother got sent off to England to find anyone else interested in the sewing machine. He found one man called William Thomas who bought the rights to the invention and arranged Howe to go to England to further improve the machine. However, they did not get along and Howe returned to America with little money and found that while he was gone lots of other companies were bust manufacturing machines. After a few lawsuits later, the argument ended when major companies joined together and pooled their patents and protected their inventions together. …show more content…

The original sewing machine was patented by Thomas Saint in 1790 in England. It was invented to speed up the making of clothing during the industrial revolution.
I choose a sewing machine. It is used for mechanically stitching fabric together.
1790: Thomas Saint patented the first sewing machine but never got it

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