The Contentious Invention of the Sewing Machine

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 27 March 2013

⏱️ 40 minutes

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The mechanization of stitching happened by way a series of inventions, several of which finally came together. Though Elias Howe is often credited with inventing the sewing machine, his invention had more to do with the combination of existing ideas.

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0:35.7	Hello and welcome to the podcast.
0:45.0	I'm Holly Fry and I am Tracy V. Wilson.
0:47.4	And I'm excited because we're talking about one of my favorite things today.
0:50.3	It is.
0:51.3	It's an invention that I love and owe a great deal of gratitude to all of the people involved.
0:57.1	As do I.
0:58.1	Not maybe to quite the extent that you do, but I also am quite fond of what we're talking
1:02.7	about today, which is the sewing machine.
1:04.8	Yes.
1:05.8	You sew extensively.
1:06.8	Every day.
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