Since 1852, American sewing machines by various makers have taken the premiums at all the shows, and were soon known and appreciated over the whole civilized world. At the present time improved ...
In this early group of patent models, the textile machinery models date from 1837 to 1840, and the sewing machine models from 1842 to 1854. For more information about the Museum’s patent model ...
There are fortunately some American women left whose constitutions ... on the latter class of females by the use of the sewing machine have been thoroughly studied, particularly in Prance, and ...
A couple of years earlier, American campaigner Elizabeth Cady ... a look at another product which was also struggling: a sewing machine. It did not work very well. Nobody had succeeded in making ...