The Invention of the Sewing MachineCooper, Grace Rogers
History
The Invention of the Sewing Machine
Cooper, Grace Rogers
Sewing machines -- History
Greenman and True Greenman and True Mfg. 1859 1860
(fig. 91) Co. Norwich, Conn.
Morse and True 1860 1861
Green Mountain ---- ca. 1860 --
Griswold Variety L. Griswold, New York, ca. 1886 ca. 1890
N.Y.
Grover and Baker Grover and Baker Sewing 1851 1875
(figs. 34-36, 92) Machine Co., Boston,
Mass.
Hancock ---- 1868 before 1881
(figs. 93, 94)
Heberling Running John Heberling 1878 ca. 1885
Stitch
Herron's Patent ---- 1857 --
(fig. 95)
Higby Higby Sewing Machine ca. 1882 after 1886
Later Acme Co., Brattleboro, Vt.
Home Johnson, Clark & Co., 1869 after 1876
Home Shuttle Orange, Mass.
Homestead ---- ca. 1881 --
Household Providence Tool Co., 1880 ca. 1884
Providence, R.I.
Household Sewing ca. 1885 1906
Machine Co.
Howe (figs. 96, 97) Howe Sewing Machine Co., 1853 1873
New York, N.Y.
(company of A. B. Howe
sold to Howe Machine
Co.)
Howe (fig. 98) Howe Machine Co., 1867 1886
Bridgeport, Conn.
Howe's Improved Nichols and Bliss, 1852 1853
Patent (fig. 107) Boston, Mass.
J. B. Nichols & Co. 1853 1854
which became Nichols, Leavitt & Co., 1854 1856
Leavitt Boston, Mass.
N. Hunt, which N. Hunt & Co., Boston, 1853 1854
became Hunt and Mass.
Webster (figs. 99, Hunt and Webster, 1854 1857
100) Boston, Mass.
Later Ladd and
Webster (_see_)
Improved Common ---- ca. 1870 --
Sense (fig. 102)
Independent Independent Sewing 1873 --
Noiseless Machine Co.,
Binghamton, N.Y.
Jennie June June Mfg. Co., Chicago, 1881 1890
Ill. Later
Belvidere, Ill.
Jewel Jewel Mfg. Co., Toledo, 1884 after 1886
Ohio
Johnson (fig. 103) Emery, Houghton & Co., 1856 after 1865
Boston, Mass.
Keystone Keystone Sewing Machine before 1872 ca. 1874
Co.
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