This page from Gizmo Highway presents a good history of the sewing machine, which also includes a picture.

The history of the sewing machine dates back to 1755. This page describes the breakthroughs, ending with Singer's design in 1851. Links to sites about sewing machines.

An image of "Young Woman Sewing by the Light of a Lamp", created by Georg Friedrich Kersting in 1823 (Oil on canvas, 40 x 34 cm).

An image of "Woman Sewing on the Terrace", created by Cristiano Banti in 1882 (Oil on canvas, 31 x 15 cm).

An image of "Young Mother Sewing", created by Mary Cassatt in 1900 (Oil on canvas, 92 x 74 cm).

An image of "Pasie Sewing in the Garden", created by Berthe Morisot in 1881 (Oil on canvas).

An image of "Women Working on Pillow Lace (The Sewing School)", created by Giacomo Ceruti during the 1720's (Oil on canvas, 150 x 200 cm).

An image of "Dutch Interior with Woman Sewing", created by Esaias Boursse, c. 1660 (Oil on canvas, 52 x 59 cm).

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House where Mary Young Pickersgill sewed the large Star-Spangled Banner flag of the United States, to fly over Fort McHenry, inspiring the U.S. national anthem.

Among the remarkable inventions of a remote era, may be mentioned bellows and siphons. The former were used as early as the reign of Thothmes the Third, and contemporary of Moses, being represented in a tomb bearing the name of that...

The use of the spindle and loom, sewing, braiding, etc, form the subjects of many of the paintings, as also the process of cultivating flax, beating and combing it. - Goodrich, 1844

Elias Howe, invented the sewing machine.-E. Benjamin Andrews 1895

(1819-1867) Inventor of the sewing machine and fought in the Civil War.

The inventor of the sewing machine.

Collect all those unusable umbrellas and recycle them into an article of clothing.

Collect all those unusable umbrellas and recycle them into an article of clothing.