• The Sewing Machine Combination or the Sewing Machine Trust was the first patent pool in US history. It was formed by the "Albany Agreement" of 24 October...
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    A sewing machine is a machine used to sew fabric and materials together with thread. Sewing machines were invented during the first Industrial Revolution...
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    computerized machines, while home shoemaking, dressmaking, quilting, crafts, haute couture and tailoring may use a combination of hand and machine sewing. In clothing...
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    Isaac Singer (category Sewing machines)
    design of the sewing machine and was the founder of what became one of the first American multi-national businesses, the Singer Sewing Machine Company. Many...
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  • Singer Model 27 and 127 (category Sewing machines)
    The Singer Model 27 and later model 127 were a series of lockstitch sewing machines produced by the Singer Manufacturing Company from the 1880s to the...
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  • hemstitch sewing machine by Swiss inventor and entrepreneur Karl Friedrich Gegauf. Currently, the company's products include sewing machines, embroidery...
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    Machine embroidery is the process of using a sewing or embroidery machine to create decorative stitching on fabric. It is widely used in commercial branding...
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  • litigation threatened the very existence of the [sewing machine] industry. The Great Sewing Machine Combination, the first important patent pooling arrangement...
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    Brother Industries (category Sewing machine brands)
    computers, consumer and industrial sewing machines, large machine tools, label printers, typewriters, fax machines, and other computer-related electronics...
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  • The Secret Life of Machines is an educational television series presented by Tim Hunkin and Rex Garrod, in which the two explain the inner workings and...
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  • Janome (category Sewing machine brands)
    produces sewing machines, with manufacturing plants in Japan, Taiwan and Thailand. The company name until September 30, 2021 was Janome Sewing Machine Co....
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    gluing, fabric cutting, sewing, tape and fiber placement, routing, picking and placing, and sawing. The first NC machines were built in the 1940s and...
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    robotic systems. The German mechanician Franz Reuleaux wrote, "a machine is a combination of resistant bodies so arranged that by their means the mechanical...
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    need for an accurate cylinder spurred Boulton's boring machine is discussed by Roe); sewing machines; bicycles; automobiles; and aircraft. Others could be...
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  • machine Early flying machines History of the bicycle History of computing hardware History of the sewing machine History of perpetual motion machines...
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    make a superior machine. To prevent damaging lawsuits, in 1856 several important patents were pooled under the Sewing Machine Combination, which licensed...
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    recently patented sewing machine of Allen B. Wilson, and contracting with the firm controlling the patent to build 500 of these machines, he engaged the...
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    from the McCall Pattern Company, a maker of home sewing patterns founded in 1870. With fewer people sewing at home, McCall was seemingly on the decline—but...
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  • in sewing-machines", issued 1862-02-18  John Fluevog Shoe Production: The Goodyear Welt October 27, 2014 US96944A, "Improvement in sewing-machines for...
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    Babbage/Scheutz difference engine and built a version that was the size of a sewing machine. In 1834, Babbage started to design his analytical engine, which will...
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  • P4P (category Letter–number combination disambiguation pages)
    and sewing machines. P2P (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title formed as a letter–number combination. If...
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    shortening a rope or other cable while in use or for storage Chain stitch, a sewing and embroidery technique Chains were introduced by Chanel as weights in...
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    With the development of the sewing machine, some quilters began to use the sewing machine, and in more recent decades machine quilting has become quite...
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    successful sewing machines. He invented both the vibrating and the rotating shuttle designs which, in turns, dominated all home lockstitch sewing machines. With...
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    practical machines to use a wire card. He patented this machine and also a new form of card with layers of cloth and rubber. The combination of these two...
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  • and was described by Moorhouse as "Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven with a sewing machine". The film was internationally co-financed between Australia and the...
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    Typewriter (redirect from Type machine)
    Remington and Sons (then famous as a manufacturer of sewing machines) to commercialize the machine as the Sholes and Glidden Type-Writer. This was the...
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    ball') is a paper model that is usually (although not always) created by sewing multiple identical pyramidal units together using underlying geometric principles...
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    Grosgrain ribbon is often used for facings and for waistbands. McCall's Sewing Book states: "grosgrain ribbon is used with any heavy fabric to reduce bulk"...
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    seeing a ball bonder will usually compare its operation to that of a sewing machine. In fact there is a needle-like disposable tool called the capillary...
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