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The Invention of the Sewing Machine

Chapter 45: Transcriber’s Notes:
By Grace Rogers Cooper
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The work traces the technological and commercial evolution of mechanical sewing from early hand stitching through the 19th-century efforts to create practical machines, describing inventive experiments, patent developments, and technical elements that produced usable designs. It analyzes how manufacturers, patent arrangements, and marketing transformed the device into a mass-produced consumer appliance and influenced clothing manufacture, retail, and buying practices. Detailed appendixes provide company lists, patent-model inventories, promotional leaflets, thread history, and biographical sketches, while chapters explain key mechanism types, cost-reduction strategies, and chronology. The narrative combines technical description with institutional and business history to document diffusion and adaptation of the technology.

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Transcriber’s Notes:

Minor punctuation errors have been corrected without note. Footnotes have been moved to Chapter ends. The following typographical errors have been corrected/noted:

Footnote 9 “Praktisches Wissen von der Nähmaschine.”—was “Praktisches wissen von der Nähmaschine.”

p. 11   “a loop in the other”—was “a loop in the the other”

p. 19   “chainstitch, Thimonnier used”—was “chainstitch, Thimmonier used”

p. 76   “known to be in existence is”—was “known to be in eixstence is”

p. 80   “7501-12500,  1873;”—was “7501-12500,  8173;”

p. 119  “shaped like an open _ into which”— A letter or symbol appears to be missing in the original between open and into.

p. 119  “181161-220318”—overlaps range of previous entry.

p. 130  “June 30, 1874   152,618”—was “Jan. 30, 1874   152,618”

p. 138  “Villefranche-sur-Saône”—was “Ville-franche-sur-Saône”

p. 145  “Praktisches Wissen von der Nähmaschine.”—was “Praktisches wissin von der Nähmaschine.”

p. 153  “O’Neil, John, 137618”—was “O’Niel, John, 137618”