In an airy expanse on the second floor of an outbuilding on a hill overlooking the Green River Valley in Halifax, Eric Smith ...

The Singer Corporation is undoubtedly best-known for its sewing machines. However, prior to WWII, the company was given a production study by the U.S. government to prepare for the production of ...

In 1845, he built his first sewing machine and soon constructed an improved model, which he carried to the Patent Office in Washington to apply for a patent. He received the fifth United States patent ...

A cast page for The Great British Sewing Bee 2025, including details on their jobs, ages and how they got into sewing.

The Museum’s Textile Collection contains over four thousand patent models. The collection includes many examples of carding machines, spinning machines, knitting machines, rope making machines, looms, ...

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Release of the requested documents will negatively impact an ongoing inspector general investigation,” a city FOIA officer ...

If all sewing machines in New York city were to make this extra demand upon the resources of the Croton Board, it would find itself seriously embarrassed to meet it with the present supply.

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