Biography Of Elias Howe: The Great Inventor Of The Industrial Revolution

In 1846, a man by the name of Elias Howe invented the first American Sewing Machine. Most people in the early 1800s lacked the resources & money, as well as a variety of shops to purchase clothing for themselves and their families. Everything was handcrafted at the time. I love clothing. Clothes to me are art and with this invention it made it significantly easier to make, and maintain. I also believe that the reason he is considered a “Great Inventor of the Industrial Revolution” is because the Sewing Machine is still used to this day. Elias Howe changed everything. Howe, who has had a fascination with machinery since he was a little child, acquired the machinist skill while working at a cotton machines firm in Lowell, Massachusetts, and then Cambridge.

Howe devoted all of his free time for five years on creating a useful sewing machine. Howe was born on July 9th, 1819, In New York, he created a new method of producing clothing. In 1846, he secured a patent for the first functional sewing machine in America. Howe's machine could sew faster than the fastest hand sewers, at a rate of 250 stitches per minute. Howe's design did not sell well, despite being efficient. For £250 (or $1,250), Howe sold the patent rights in England. In order to develop his machine for use in sewing leather and other similar materials, he relocated to England and worked for £5 per week. He was able to move his family back to the United States when his financial situation deteriorated, but when he finally arrived there bankrupt, he discovered that his wife was dying. Thereafter, years of frustration and hopelessness occurred. While he was away, he discovered that his patent was being violated by the widespread manufacture and sale of sewing machines in the US. His rights were finally established in 1854 after considerable legal disputes, and