The Invention of the Sewing MachineCooper, Grace Rogers
History
The Invention of the Sewing Machine
Cooper, Grace Rogers
Sewing machines -- History
Philadelphia Philadelphia Sewing ca. 1872 ca. 1881
Machine Co.,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Post Combination Post Combination Sewing before 1885 after 1886
Machine Co.,
Washington, D.C.
Pratt's Patent ---- 1857 ca. 1858
(fig. 114) Later
Ladies Companion
Queen Dauntless Mfg Co., ca. 1881 --
Norwalk, Ohio
Quaker City Quaker City Sewing 1859 ca. 1861
(fig. 116) Machine Co.,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Remington Empire Remington Empire Sewing 1870 1872
Later Remington Machine Co.
E. Remington & Sons, 1873 ca. 1894
Philadelphia, Pa.
Robertson (dolphin T. W. Robertson, New 1855 after 1860
& cherub) (figs. York, N.Y.
40, 41)
Robinson F. R. Robinson, Boston, 1853 ca. 1855
Mass.
Robinson's patent Howard & Davis, Boston, 1855 --
sewing machine Mass.
with Roper's
improvement (fig. 117)
Later Robinson same 1856 before 1860
and Roper
(fig. 118)
Royal St. John Royal Sewing Machine ca. 1883 1898
(formerly St. John) Co., Springfield, Ohio
(later Free Co.)
Ruddick ---- ca. 1860 --
Secor Secor Machine Co., 1870 1876
Bridgeport, Conn.
Sewing Shears Nettleton & Raymond, ca. 1859 --
(Hendrick's patent) Bristol, Conn.
(fig. 43)
Sewing Shears American Hand Sewing ca. 1884 ca. 1900
Machine Co.,
Bridgeport, Conn.
Shaw & Clark Shaw & Clark Co., ca. 1857 1866
Running Stitch Biddeford, Me.
Machine (fig. 53)
Chainstitch
Machine (fig. 119)
Chainstitch Shaw & Clark Co., 1867 1868
Machine (fig. 120) Chicopee Falls, Mass.
Chicopee Sewing Machine 1868 ca. 1869
Co., Chicopee Falls,
Mass.
Sigwalt Sigwalt Sewing Machine ca. 1879 --
Co., Chicago, Ill.
Singer (figs. 28, I. M. Singer & Co. 1851 [A]
29, 30, 32, 33, (later Singer Mfg. Co.).
121, 122) Moved from Boston to
New York to
Elizabethport, N.J.
(factory).
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