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Woman using a sewing machine. Detail of contemporary sewing machine parts: needle, needle bar, presser foot, feed dog, bobbin case, shuttle (loop taker), machine bed, and plate. Barthélemy Thimonnier, portrait from Le Petit Journal Supplement Illustre, 1907. Sewing machine, invented by Elias Howe, illustrated on a cigarette card, 1915. Vintage Singer foot-treadle sewing machine. Singer Company: sewing machine Singer sewing machine Singer's first sewing machine sewing machine Sewing machine
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Woman using a sewing machine.
Detail of contemporary sewing machine parts: needle, needle bar, presser foot, feed dog, bobbin case, shuttle (loop taker), machine bed, and plate.
Barthélemy Thimonnier, portrait from Le Petit Journal Supplement Illustre, 1907.
Sewing machine, invented by Elias Howe, illustrated on a cigarette card, 1915.
Vintage Singer foot-treadle sewing machine.
Singer Company: sewing machine
Singer sewing machine
Singer's first sewing machine
sewing machine
Sewing machine
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Industrial designer Charles Harrison
Charles Harrison
American industrial designer
Elias Howe
Elias Howe
American inventor
Isaac Singer
American inventor
James Starley
British inventor
Lyman Reed Blake
American inventor
Amos Whitney
American manufacturer
Barthélemy Thimonnier
French inventor
Frederick Webster Howe
American inventor and manufacturer

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Alberto Santos-Dumont. Postcard of Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont's (1873-1932) airship or dirigible and Eiffel Tower. The Santos Dumont Air-Ship rounding the Eiffel Tower; on Octoboer 19th 1901. airplane
A History of Everyday Technology in 68 Quiz Questions