How Do You Learn About The Sewing Machine?
The invention of the sewing machine is most often credited to Elias Howe in 1846; but there were many different kinds of sewing machines developed during the same period. Howe’s version, however, was the first version that was commercially successful. The following steps will aid in your search for information about this invention. Look for technical information on the sewing machine. The sewing machine is a device that uses thread to stitch cloth and other materials. Howe’s version was a lockstitch device that used a straight needle with an eye near the point. It could sew 250 stitches per minute and had an intermittent feed. Read about how there are two basic types of sewing machines: the lockstitch and chain stitch. A top and bottom thread are looped together and interlocked tightly in a lockstitch machine. In a chain-stitch machine, a single thread is looped around itself. Search websites about history to learn that the patent wars between Isaac Singer and Elias Hunt make the credi
