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See also:HOWE, EIJAS (1819 — 1867) , See also:American sewing - See also:machine inventor, was See also:born in See also:Spencer, See also:Massachusetts, on the 9th of See also:July 1819. His See also:early years were spent on his See also:father's See also:farm. In 1835 he entered the factory of a manufacturer of See also:cotton-machinery at See also:Lowell, Massachusetts, where he learned the machinist's See also:trade. Subsequently, while employed in a machine See also:shop at See also:Cambridge, See also:Mass., he conceived the See also:idea of a sewing machine, and for five years spent all his spare See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in its development. In See also:September 1846 a patent for a See also:practical sewing machine was granted to him; and Howe spent the following two years (1847–1849) in See also:London, employed by See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas, a corset manufacturer, to whom he had sold the See also:English rights for £250. Years of disappointment and discouragement followed before he was successful in introducing his invention, and several imitations which infringed his patent, particularly that of See also:Isaac See also:Merritt See also:Singer (1811-1875), had already been successfully introduced and were widely used. His rights were established after much litigation in 1854, and by the date of expiration of his patent (1867) he had realized something over $2,000,000 out of his invention. He died in See also:Brooklyn, New See also:York, on the 3rd of See also:October 1867.
See See also:History of the Sewing Machine and of See also:Elias Howe, Jr., the Inventor (See also:Detroit, 1867); P. G. See also:Hubert, Jr., Inventors, in " Men of Achievement " See also:series (New York, 1893).
End of Article: HOWE, EIJAS (1819 — 1867)
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