- EAN13
- 9782384691692
- Éditeur
- Human and Literature Publishing
- Date de publication
- 04/08/2023
- Langue
- anglais
- Fiches UNIMARC
- S'identifier
Livre numérique
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Aide EAN13 : 9782384691692
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This book deals with the history of the sewing machine.
After almost a century of attempts to invent a machine that would sew, the
practical sewing machine evolved in the mid-19th century.
In all the preceding centuries of civilization hand sewing was exclusively
employed, and it was reserved for the Nineteenth Century to relieve women from
the drudgery which for so many centuries had enslaved them.
Embroidery machines had been patented in England by Weisenthal in 1755, and
Alsop in 1770, and on July 17, 1790, an English patent, No. 1,764, was granted
to Thomas Saint for a crude form of sewing machine, having a horizontal arm
and vertical needle. In 1826 a patent was granted in the United States to one
Lye for a sewing machine, but no records of the same remain, as all were
burned in the fire of 1836. In 1830 B. Thimonnier patented a sewing machine in
France, 80 of which, made of wood, were in use in 1841 for sewing army
clothing, but they were destroyed by a mob, as many other labor-saving
inventions had been before. Between 1832 and 1835 Walter Hunt, of New York,
made a lock-stitch sewing machine, but abandoned it...
After almost a century of attempts to invent a machine that would sew, the
practical sewing machine evolved in the mid-19th century.
In all the preceding centuries of civilization hand sewing was exclusively
employed, and it was reserved for the Nineteenth Century to relieve women from
the drudgery which for so many centuries had enslaved them.
Embroidery machines had been patented in England by Weisenthal in 1755, and
Alsop in 1770, and on July 17, 1790, an English patent, No. 1,764, was granted
to Thomas Saint for a crude form of sewing machine, having a horizontal arm
and vertical needle. In 1826 a patent was granted in the United States to one
Lye for a sewing machine, but no records of the same remain, as all were
burned in the fire of 1836. In 1830 B. Thimonnier patented a sewing machine in
France, 80 of which, made of wood, were in use in 1841 for sewing army
clothing, but they were destroyed by a mob, as many other labor-saving
inventions had been before. Between 1832 and 1835 Walter Hunt, of New York,
made a lock-stitch sewing machine, but abandoned it...
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