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Singer Vs Howe

Do you wear homemade clothes? Probably not, we have the conveniences of manufactured clothing. We can thank Elias Howe and Isaac Singer. Elias created the first working sewing machine and Singer updated and made it cheaper and more practical. The sewing machine was first made by Thomas Saint in 1790, later improved by Elias Howe in 1846, and again by Isaac Singer in 1854.
Elias Howe’s family invented many thing from the wooden truss bridge to bed springs, so he was destined for greatness. Elias Howe was born in 1819. Elias started working at his dad's farm at 6 years old. At age 11 he helped work at a neighboring farm but had to stop because he had a lame foot and was sickly. In 1835 He rejoined his dad at the farm. He was an apprentice to his dad. Then he was apprentice to an instrument maker and watchmaker at the age of 19. He married to Elizabeth Jennings Ames in 1841 at the age of 22. Sadly he died in 1867 at 48.
Thomas Saint’s sewing machine wasn't correctly made. It was known that whomever invented the first proper sewing machine would get all the credit. Elias and
his brother Ari worked to invent the sewing machine together. They worked tirelessly, night and day, making hundreds of models that didn't work. Elias worked at his brother’s shop for many years trying to invent the impossible. Finally after eight years, he invented the first sewing machine in 1846.
Singer was born in 1811. He left home at 12, without much of an education, to work many jobs as an unskilled laborer. As a teen he started a promising apprenticeship as a mechanic, to only quit and join a traveling theater group. During his nine years in the traveling theater group, he impregnated over a dozen women. But then his traveling theater group failed, so he went back to his apprenticeship. In 1839, he became an inventor and patented his ‘rock drilling machine’. Ten years later he made a ‘wood and metal carving machine’ which he opened a manufacturing company for, which completely failed because it exploded. He got married in 1863 to Isabella Eugénie Boyer, a French model from Paris. It was rumored that she modeled for the Statue of Liberty. He married again in 1830 and his other wife was far less exciting, they had two children together and divorced in 1860. He died at 64 in 1875. In 1850, Isaac was working as a sewing machine repairman, when he was asked to repair a sewing machine.
He threw on his inventors hat and made a superior model in only a few days. He improved on Howe's machine by adding a foot treadle and was altogether sturdier and better functioning. He got his machine patented in 1854. Howe came back, after helping an Englishman with his machine, to find many people were infringing on his patent. Howe sued him for copying his machine. Howe won the suit against Singer and started collecting royalties from Singer and others who had entered the field. Soon after they made a combination machine that all of the best machines were put together. Singer still sold machines with his slogan ‘A machine in every home’. Ten years later, shoe makers used sturdy Singer machines to sew leather. And he died with over 5 million dollars from his
inventions.
Howe won the at court. Singer’s model became more popular. Sewing machines are used in everyday lives and both Singer and Howe have changed the way people will make clothes from then on. Thomas Saint made an amazing invention, Elias Howe modified it for the better, and Isaac Singer improved it for the best.