| Nowadays, it's not common to see a sewing machine | | | | Edward Chapman saw an industrial sewing machine |
| in every house as before. But there is no doubt that | | | | with the eye of the needle at the bottom of the needle |
| sewing machine is a symbol of the development of | | | | and not at the top. |
| society. | | | | Industrial sewing machines were becoming so good at |
| Human beings are familiar with sewing hundreds of | | | | their job that they started to require less people in the |
| years ago, but the sewing machine was invented just | | | | industrial factories where these sewing machines |
| 200 hundred years ago, with the advent of the | | | | were being used. A patent by the Frenchman, |
| Industrial Revolution. | | | | Bartheleémy Thimmonier's, increased production of |
| The sewing machine has changed the way the whole | | | | the French Armies uniform. As a result, over 160 tailors |
| industry operate, increasing the speed of production | | | | were not required so they rioted: They destroyed all |
| crazily, which couldn't be matched by hand at all. At | | | | the machines and almost killed Thimmonier in the |
| that time, the invention has been regarded as a great | | | | process. |
| progress of economy and society. As well, that's the | | | | In 1834, Walter Hunt, an American, created an industrial |
| reason why we call sewing machine a symbol of | | | | sewing machine that produced a locked stitch from |
| society development. | | | | underneath the machine with a second thread. Hunt is |
| The industrial sewing machines origins stem from | | | | also credited with inventing the safety pin. This industrial |
| England, France and also the United States of | | | | sewing machine design was however never patented. |
| America. Many countries can claim to have a hand in | | | | It was down to a fellow American Elias Howe who |
| the development of one of the most vital pieces of | | | | got credit for the invention of the sewing machine. In |
| equipment that is used world wide. The truth is that lots | | | | 1846 he designed and patented a machine which he |
| of countries do all play a role in the advancements of | | | | made, while a friend helped him financially, so he could |
| the industrial sewing machine. | | | | concentrate all his efforts on the industrial sewing |
| | | | machine. |
| The first patent for an industrial sewing machine was | | | | With the development of science and technology, |
| in 1790 by a man called Thomas Saint. This sewing | | | | more an more advanced sewing machines are on the |
| machine would allow leather and canvas to be | | | | process of production. Once again, I intend to |
| stitched. Like many early industrial sewing machines | | | | emphasize the fact that we can see the development |
| that followed this machine copied the action of the | | | | of society represented by the increasingly improved |
| human arm when sewing. It wasn't until 1807 when a | | | | sewing machines. |
| new innovation by two Englishman, William and | | | | |