Prominent among these are the Electric Telegraph, the Reaper and Mower, and the Sewing-Machine. What the telegraph is to the commercial world, the reaper to the agricultural, the sewing-machine is ...

But sewing machines were all the rage ... Howe mortgaged his father's farm to raise the funds to sue Singer and others for patent infringement. It took years, but Howe prevailed in 1854, winning ...

It sparked the Sewing Machine War. “People were suing each ... the development of the United States from a small dependent agricultural nation to one of the world's largest economies.

1829 practically next door to the McCormick farm, and who in 1858 perfected the modern-day sewing machine. Gibbs worked for his father at his wool-carding mill until it burned in 1845, then left home, ...