Thomas Saint is the first person to create a sewing machine.
The sewing machine with the foot pedal, also called a foot treadle, was invented by Elias Howe, Jr. Howe was born in Spencer, Massachusetts in July of 1819. He started out working at a textile factory.
Your feet on the pedal and your hand on the wheel. Everything on a treadle is manual. Some people put one foot on the back and one foot on the front of the treadle pedal when they are making the machine work. Treadle sewing takes a lot of practice! The pedal is attached to the sewing machine with a leather belt wrapped around a large wheel that is then wrapped around the wheel on the sewing machine.
A foot treadle was used, a belt was used to transfer the energy from the treadle to the shaft on the machine.
Using a treadle. (a lever worked by the foot that imparts motion to a machine.)
A treadle If it's one a foot powered machine, it is called a treadle. On an electric machine, it's actually the foot control which is commonly called the pedal(just don't spell it peddle which means to sell.)
-> To work a Treadle. or-> a pedal or lever operated by the foot for circular drive,as in a potter's wheelor sewing machine.
I have a BERNINA sewing machine that when you just plug it in the motor just runs. So is there a flaut with the foot control as this seems to be the main control of the sewing machine.
They were powered by handANS 2 -Many early sewing machines were powered by foot. Your feet worked back and forward on a 'treadle' at the base of the machine.
Well, honey, a treadle is a fancy way of saying a foot pedal, usually used to operate a machine like a sewing machine or a pump. You step on it with your foot to make things happen - it's like a dance move for machinery. So, if you want to get things moving without using your hands, just give that treadle a tap.
Though old fashioned (I still remember my Mother using one - many years ago!) they worked and did not require electricity, nor an embedded computer, or access to the internet, nor pages and pages of instructions written in several languages - the treadle sewing machine of my childhood simply worked.
A foot pedal.
The word is treadle.