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Elias Howe
Born
Elias Howe Jr.

(1819-07-09)July 9, 1819
Spencer, Massachusetts
DiedOctober 3, 1867(1867-10-03) (aged 48)
Brooklyn, New York
NationalityAmerican
Educationapprenticed as mechanic and machinist
OccupationEngineer
Spouse(s)Elizabeth Jennings Ames (m. 1841; d. 1850)
Rose Halladay (d. 1890)
ChildrenJane Robinson Howe,
Simon Ames Howe,
Julia Maria Howe
Parent(s)Elias Howe and Polly (Bemis) Howe
Engineering career
DisciplineMechanical Engineering
ProjectsSewing machine
Significant advanceLockstitch loop method
AwardsGold Medal, Paris Exposition of 1867,
Légion d'honneur (France)

Elias Howe Jr. (/h/; July 9, 1819 – October 3, 1867) was an American inventor best known for his creation of the modern lockstitch sewing machine.

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incorporated the basic eye-pointed needle and lock stitch, developed by Elias Howe, who won a patent-infringement suit against Singer in 1854. Singer obtained...

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hands, linking the rows, thus creating a "Continuous Clothing Closure" as Elias Howe would have referred to it. For this to be possible, the metal zipper is...

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bulge is reminiscent of the design used on Howe-Orme instruments—from another Boston firm, the Elias Howe Company. Vega also produced two successful lines...

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it can either jam (i.e. get stuck) or partially break off. In 1851, Elias Howe received a patent for an "Improvement in Fastenings for Garments". He...

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manuals. The first book of notated music was The Complete Preceptor by Elias Howe, published under the pseudonym Gumbo Chaff, consisting mainly of Christy's...

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account of Elias Howe inventing the needle of the modern lockstitch sewing machine in a dream. A traditional needle has its eye at its base, but Howe was supposedly...

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scientists and engineers who solved problems in their dreams. For example, Elias Howe, inventor of the sewing machine, figured out the structure of the bobbin...

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