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- The inventor is not actually known
-June 13 is National Sewing Machine Day. This day honors the invention of the sewing machine.

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Hand sewing is an art form that is over 20,000 years old. The first sewing needles were made of bones or animal horns and the first thread was made of animal sinew. Iron needles were invented in the 14th century. The first eyed needles appeared in the 15th century.

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The first patent connected to mechanical sewing was a 1755 British patent issued to German, Charles Weisenthal.

Weisenthal has issued a patent for a needle that was designed for a machine, however, the patent did not describe the rest of the machine if one existed.

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Walter Hunter later invented the up-and-down motion mechanism, and Allen Wilson developed a rotary hook shuttle.

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Several Inventors Attempt to Improve Sewing

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Several Inventors Attempt to Improve Sewing

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Thomas Saint was issued the first patent for a complete machine for sewing in 1790. It is not known if Saint actually built a working prototype of his invention.

In 1810, German, Balthasar Krems invented the automatic machine for sewing caps. Krems did not patent his invention and it didn't work well.

In 1804, a French patent was granted to Thomas Stone and James Henderson for "a machine that emulated hand sewing." That same year Scott John Duncan was granted a patent for an "embroidery machine with multiple needles." Both inventions failed and were forgotten by the public.

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First Made it Appearance in America in 1846

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First Made it Appearance in America in 1846

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Made by Elias Howe.
He wanted to improve hand sewing so he sketched its the model, and by 1946 he was done with the first machine. He built America's first successful sewing machine.