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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.

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