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The Basics of Sewing
This resource is a stitch. Kids learn the basics of hand and machine sewing, how to sew on buttons, how to construct and repair clothing, and how to use patterns to create decorative ornaments.
Science4Fun
Science4 Fun: Sewing Machine
Illustrated article provides a discussion of the invention of the sewing machine.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Sewing Machine
A history of the sewing machine is given with a discussion of Elias Howe and the contributions of others to perfect and improve on the machine. Describes the types of stitches a sewing machine can do, and the social impact of the sewing...
Great Idea Finder
Sewing Machine History: Invention of the Sewing Machine
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.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian: Sewing Machine
The Smithsonian offers a brief description of Isaac Singer's sewing machine, along with a picture and patent information.
PBS
Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Isaac Merritt Singer
This founder of the first American multinational company innovated key elements in the design of the sewing machine and marketed it to households, freeing millions of women around the world from hand-sewing.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Dyula
"Dyula" is a Manding word typically referring to "traders" as a socio-professional category, particularly to Muslim long-distance traders who speak one or another dialect of Manding. The name is used as an ethnic label by...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Inventor of the Week: Isaac Merrit Singer (1811 75)
Biographical sketch of inventor Isaac Merrit Singer, who produced the first commercially successful sewing machine in New York, in the late 1850s.
NSTATE
People of Connecticut: Elias Howe
This site is provided for by Netstate.com. Who's who in Connecticut history? Elias Howe invented the first sewing machine. Biography and picture.
Library of Congress
Loc: America's Story: Elias Howe
A look at Elias Howe who patented the first sewing machine, and the two men who made improvements to it and made it a staple of garment factories.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: Spotlight Biography Inventors
This site provides information on American inventors Benjamin Franklin, Robert Fulton, Eli Whitney, Thomas Jefferson, Isaac Singer, Wilbur Wright, Thomas Alva Edison, Elias Howe, and Alexander Graham Bell. It offers pictures from and...
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: Technology of the 1800s
[Free Registration/Login Required] Article considers the inventions and innovations in communication, transportation, and manufacturing that drove America forward in the nineteenth century. Includes a link to an interactive history of...
PBS
American Experience: Technology Timeline: 1752 1990
Short descriptions of important technological innovations produced in America and the date of their introduction.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Inventor of the Week: Garrett A. Morgan
This site from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology provides information on Garrett A. Morgan (1877-1963 CE), who is credited with inventing the gas mask, and, in turn, saving firefighters from suffocating while putting out fires...
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Inventors & Inventions 1801 1850
This site from Enchanted Learning presents several brief overviews of major early nineteenth century inventors and their inventions. The information is accessible by clicking on the corresponding link.
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