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Elias Howe – Inventor of the Lock-Stitch Sewing Machine

April 28, 2009 by S. Denise Hoyle Leave a Comment

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 […]

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