Elias Howe – Inventor of the Lock-Stitch Sewing Machine
S. Denise Hoyle | April 28, 2009
Elias Howe grew up in poverty in Spencer, Massachusetts on his parents’ farm. Born in 1819, he was sickly as a child and had difficulty performing chores around the farm, but he did them anyway. He later got rich from his invention and patent of the lock-stitch sewing machine, considered one of the great breakthroughs [...]
