Elias Howe's Impact On The Clothing Industry

Take a look at what you are wearing right now. Imagine actually having to sew and put together your own clothes? Sewing them by hand, quilting, and other handcrafts were necessary for their survival. Back then werent that easy, in many cases some people were not capable of buying clothes from a store, but to remind you the clothes that were being made in shops, were being made by hand by many women, so neither were considered luckier than others. The problem was that putting together an item was an extremely time consuming task, so this caused people to have, unless of course if you were wealthy, and able to buy whatever clothes you wanted. This all changed when a young man named Elias Howe started on an uprising in the clothes making industry. He was born on July 9, 1819 on a little farm near Spencer,
Elias was always known as being gifted in his own possible ways. He was inquiring and mechanically gifted, so when he turned 16 he left the he left the farm to initate to a machine maker. Elias was always coming up with bright ideas, but took the sewing machine to his pride and kept on with it once he thought of that idea. The only reason why he thought of this was because of a financial panic that broke out that year, he knew he would eventually be unable to work as a machinist, so then he began thinking about how he can make up a sewing machine. Elias patented the world's first successful sewing machine. Before Elias’s house time many inventors has attempted to make Sewing machine and some had just fallen short of success, but Elias was no where near being aware of these men trying to create the sewing machine, but !none of them reached the goal. The invention began with one of his friends lending him around $500 so he can get the materials and tools he needed, reminder that he wasn’t very wealthy at all. His friend fisher let Elias turn his attic into a work room for him, Howes first tries were failures, but then the