The Invention of the Sewing MachineCooper, Grace Rogers
History
The Invention of the Sewing Machine
Cooper, Grace Rogers
Sewing machines -- History
Empress Manufactured on order 1877 --
through Jerome B.
Secor, Bridgeport,
Conn.
Estey Estey Sewing Machine ca. 1880 1882
Co.
Estey, Brattleboro Sewing 1883 after 1886
Fuller-Model Machine Co.,
Brattleboro, Vt.
Eureka (fig. 81) Eureka Shuttle Sewing 1859 --
New York, N.Y.
Excelsior Excelsior Sewing Machine 1854 1854
Co., New York, N.Y.
Fairy (figs. 51, 52) Madame Demorest, New 1863 ca. 1865
York, N.Y.
Finkle, M. (fig. 82) M. Finkle, Boston, 1856 ca. 1859
Mass.
Finkle & Lyon Finkle & Lyon Sewing ca. 1859 1867
Machine Co., Boston,
Mass.
Later Victor
First and Frost First and Frost, New ca. 1859 ca. 1861
York, N.Y.
Florence (fig. 83) Florence Sewing Machine ca. 1860 after 1878
Later Crown Co., Florence, Mass.
Folsom Folsom, J. G., 1865 ca. 1871
(_see_ Globe and Winchendon, Mass.
New England)
Fosket and Savage Fosket and Savage, 1858 1859
Meriden, Conn.
Foxboro Foxboro Rotary Shuttle ca. 1882 --
Co., Foxboro, Mass.
Franklin Franklin Sewing Machine 1871 1871
Co., Mason
Village, N.H.
Free Free Sewing Machine 1898 [A]
Co., Chicago and
Rockford, Ill.
Gardner C. R. Gardner, 1856 --
Detroit, Mich.
Globe (figs. 84, 85) J. G. Folsom, 1865 1869
Winchendon, Mass.
Gold Medal Gold Medal Sewing 1863 1876
(chainstitch) Machine Co., Orange,
Mass.
Gold Medal ---- 1863 ca. 1865
(running stitch)
Gold Hibbard Hibbard, B. S., & Co. 1875 --
Goodbody (sewing Goodbody Sewing Machine 1880 ca. 1890
shears) Co., Bridgeport, Conn.
Goodes Rex & Bockius, ca. 1876 before 1881
Philadelphia, Pa.
Goodrich H. B. Goodrich, Chicago, ca. 1880 ca. 1895
Ill.
Grant Brothers Grant Bros. & Co., 1867 ca. 1870
(fig. 90) Philadelphia, Pa.
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