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Elias Howe obtained the patent for the first sewing machine to use a lockstitch. He won a 6-year court case against Isaac Singer, and earned considerable royalties from Singer and others for having sold his invention. Elias went on to invent the zipper.

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Elias Howe invented the sewing machine. However, he was not the first person to come up with the concept.

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he invented the sewing machine?!?

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