Who invented the sewing machine?

Who invented the sewing machine?

Barthelemy Thimonnier, a French tailor, invented the first functional sewing machine in 1830. This machine used only one thread, and a hooked needle that made the same chain stitch used with embroidery. The inventor was almost killed by an enraged group of French tailors who burnt down his factory because they feared unemployment as a result of his new invention.

Walter Hunt built America’s first fairly successful sewing machine in 1834. They eye pointed needle sewing machine was reinvented and patented by Elias Howe of USA in 1846.

Sewing machines did not go into mass production until the 1850’s when Isaac Singer built the first commercially successful machine. Singer built the first sewing machine where the needle moved up and down rather than the side-to-side, and a foot treadle powered it.


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