The Invention of the Sewing Machine
by Grace Rogers Cooper
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About this eBook
- Author
- Cooper, Grace Rogers, 1924-2004
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper, Louise Pattison and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- TJ: Technology: Mechanical engineering and machinery
- Subject
- Sewing machines -- History
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 32677
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32677
- Release Date
- June 4, 2010
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM — The Invention Of the Sewing Machine
- 2.Publications of the United States National Museum
- 3.Contents
- 4.Preface
- 5.Chapter One
- 6.Early Efforts — To 1800 — 1800-1820 — 1820-1845 — FOOTNOTES:
- 7.Chapter Two
- 8.Elements of a Successful Machine — FOOTNOTES:
- 9.Chapter Three
- 10.The “Sewing-Machine Combination” — FOOTNOTES:
- 11.Chapter Four
- 12.Less Expensive Machines — FOOTNOTES:
- 13.Appendixes — I. Notes on the Development and Commercial Use of the Sewing Machine — INTRODUCTION — READY-MADE CLOTHING — SHOE MANUFACTURE — OTHER USES — SEWING-MACHINE ATTACHMENTS — THREAD FOR THE MACHINE — MANUFACTURE AND EXPORT, TO 1900 — FOOTNOTES: — II. American Sewing-Machine Companies of the 19th Century — III. Chronological List of U.S. Sewing-Machine Patent Models in the Smithsonian Collections — IV. 19th-Century Sewing-Machine Leaflets in the Smithsonian Collections — V. A Brief History of Cotton Thread — FOOTNOTES: — VI. Biographical Sketches — BARTHELEMY THIMONNIER — WALTER HUNT — ELIAS HOWE, JR. — ALLEN BENJAMIN WILSON — ISAAC MERRITT SINGER — FOOTNOTES:
- 14.Bibliography
- 15.Indexes — Geographical Index to Companies listed in Appendix II — Alphabetical Index to Patentees listed in Appendix III — General Index to Chapters 1-4
- 16.Transcriber’s Notes:
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