Charles Wiesenthal was awarded the first British patent for a mechanical device to aid the art of sewing, in 1755. His invention consisted of a double pointed needle with an eye at one end. The needle was grabbed by mechanisms on either end and passed back and forth - unlike the typical modern sewing machine with the needle remaining attached at one end and bobbing up and down.
From 1790 to 1829 a number of sewing machines were developed that worked more like modern ones with a single needle using a chain stitch. in Britain, Newton and Archibold introduced the eye-pointed needle and the use of two pressing surfaces to keep the pieces of fabric in position, in 1841. Over in the USA what would be recognized by most people as a sewing machine came about through the inventions and improvements by John Fisher in 1844, Elias Howe in 1845, and Isaac Singer in 1851 culminating in the formation of the Sewing Machine Combination in 1856 - the precursor of the Singer Sewing Co.
1843 i think
He was awarded a patent on the improvements to existing sewing machine on September 10, 1846.
Elias Howe invented the Sewing machine in 1846 in Boston Massachusetts
Elias Howe, invented the first sewing machine in 1846
it was invented by Elias Howe.
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If by "olden days" you're referring to prior to 1846 (when the sewing machine was invented), there was no sewing machine. All sewing was done by hand.
He invented a sewing machine.
Any machine will only do what the human operator tells it to do
Elias Howe in 1844
Then we probably would not have the sewing machine. The sewing machine is a rise up of the spinning wheel.
The first sewing machine was invented by Thomas Saint in London during the 1790's