Attempts to mechanize the work of tailors made since the mid of XIV century, but the sewing machine came into our world much later than the mechanized spinning and weaving machines. The first patent for a tool similar to a sewing machine was received in 1755 the Englishman Charles Veyzental. The invention was very imperfect and therefore not widely used. In 1790, Englishman Thomas Saint received a patent for a machine for sewing shoes and boots that gave one-ply seam. This move spurred inventors to develop new designs for the mechanical implementation of the stitch. The first man, who used two seams to the same joint, was an Austrian tailor, Josef Madersperger, who built the machine on the same principle as the weaving. However, it also didn’t receive distribution. Frenchman Timon, who produced in 1830 a machine that gave the chain stitch, was the first man which was successful in the history of the modern sewing machine. His machine was served mainly to sew dresses for the soldiers. Along with these innovators an American Elias Howe worked to create a tool for sewing. In his invention, he laid some of the elements of the loom, including the kind of shuttle. In 1845 E. Howe received a patent for the first real sewing machine stitch that worked at a speed of three hundred stitches per minute. Such American inventors as Allen Wilson, James Gibbs, John Bachelder and brilliant businessman Isaac Merritt Singer improved the mechanism. In 1851, Singer has created one of the first household sewing machines, where the needle was secured in an upright position. The first machines with electric drive already came in the 1870s. One of them was patented in America by Jones.
At the turn of the XIX-XX centuries, women were able to not only make dresses, and sew with a machine, and even to darn the stockings. Today you can order online clothes, fabrics and sewing tools, but even a sewing machine, chosen that you like from the large range.
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