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Isaac Merrit Singer
Isaac Merrit Singer 1811-75, American inventor, b. Rensselaer co., N.Y. As a child he lived in Oswego, N.Y. He patented in 1851 a practical sewing machine that could do continuous stitching. Although he lost a suit for infringement brought by Elias Howe, his company was already so well established ... Read more
Richard Howe Howe, Earl
Richard Howe Howe, Earl 1726-99, British admiral; elder brother of Viscount Howe . He won early recognition in the Seven Years War for his operations in the English Channel. After the outbreak of the American Revolution, he was given (1776) command of the North American fleet. He and his brother w... Read more
Edgar Watson Howe
Edgar Watson Howe 1853-1937, American editor and author, b. Treaty, near Wabash, Ind. From 1877 to 1911 he was editor and proprietor of the Atchison, Kans., Daily Globe, and in 1911 he established E. W. Howe's Monthly. Published until 1937, this periodical was noted for Howe's pithy editorials.... Read more
William Howe Howe, 5th Viscount
William Howe Howe, 5th Viscount 1729-1814, English general in the American Revolution; younger brother of Admiral Richard Howe. He took up a military career, and in the last of the French and Indian Wars served with distinction at the capture of Louisburg and in the fight for Quebec (1759). He to... Read more
John Howe
John Howe 1630-1705, English Puritan clergyman. As domestic chaplain to Oliver Cromwell, he advocated religious toleration. After the Restoration, he preached in secret (1662-71) until, becoming chaplain to Lord Massereene of Antrim Castle, Ireland, he turned his attention to writing. He eventually... Read more
Joseph Howe
Joseph Howe 1804-73, Canadian journalist and political leader, b. Halifax, N.S. In 1828, Howe became proprietor and editor of the Nova Scotian, which under his direction became the leading journal of the province. In 1836 he entered the provincial assembly and assumed leadership of his reform par... Read more
Irving Howe
Irving Howe 1920-93, American literary and social critic, b. New York City. From his early days as a Trotskyist to his later (and lifelong) position as a democratic socialist, Howe criticized Stalinism and left-wing totalitarianism. His roles as a cofounder (1954) of Dissent magazine and frequent... Read more
Julia Ward Howe
Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910, American author and social reformer, b. New York City. She assisted her husband, Samuel Gridley Howe , in his philanthropic projects and in editing the Boston Commonwealth, an abolitionist paper. Her first book of poetry was published in 1854. Mrs. Howe wrote and lectu... Read more
Samuel Gridley Howe
Samuel Gridley Howe 1801-76, American reformer and philanthropist, b. Boston, Mass., grad. Brown, 1821, M.D. Harvard, 1824. He began his life-long service to others by going to Greece to aid in its war for independence and spent six years there. He is best remembered for his work with the blind; he... Read more
Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury
Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury , 1812-80, English novelist. She is remembered as much for her friendship with the Carlyles and other literary people as for her novels, which include Zoe (1845) and The Sorrows of Gentility (1856). Bibliography: See biography by S. Howe (1935). ... Read more

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Elias Howe
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Elias Howe Elias Howe (1819-1867), American inventor, is credited with designing the first workable sewing machine, an invention which revolutionized garment and shoe manufacture. Elias Howe was born in Spencer, Mass., where his father...
Benjamin Franklin Butler
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...injured workers alike, and prepared the patent documents for Elias Howe's sewing machine with such thoroughness that the Singer Sewing Machine Company was later forced to pay Howe lifetime royalties. Skilled Trial Lawyer Butler married...
Isaac Merrit Singer
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...1851 a practical sewing machine that could do continuous stitching. Although he lost a suit for infringement brought by Elias Howe, his company was already so well established that it took the lead in a subsequent combination of manufactures and pooling...
sewing machine
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...City is said to have devised in 1832 a machine using an eye-pointed needle but failed to patent it. American inventor Elias Howe made the first successful machine (1846) using an eye-pointed needle and an intermittent feed. After perfecting...
Connecticut
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History ...the rifles which had such an important effect on the winning of the American Civil War (1861 – 65), and Elias Howe invented the sewing machine. Clockmakers, like Eli Terry and Seth Thomas, made Connecticut a leader in clock and watch...
Isaac M. Singer
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...partly because of its continuous-feed feature, he was successfully sued three years later for patent infringement by Elias Howe, who had registered his own sewing machine design in 1846. However, the advent of patent pooling and licensing agreements...
Industrial Revolution
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science ...change also began to spread to other nations. By the mid-nineteenth century, as an example, the American inventor Elias Howe had applied the principles of the Industrial Revolution to hand sewing. He invented a machine that, in a demonstration...
Foltz, Clara Shortridge
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...Indiana, the second of five children, and the only girl, to Elias Willets Shortridge and Telitha Cumi Harwood Shortridge, both...Iowa. There, she received her only formal education, at Howe's Academy, a progressive school whose mission and purposes...

Dictionary entries related to "elias howe"

Sewing Machine
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...nineteenth-century American invention. Elias Howe, Jr., usually credited as the...Thomas, a corset manufacturer. When Howe returned home, he found that several...sewing-machine combination" were Elias Howe, Jr.; Wheeler and Wilson Manufacturing...
Clothing Industry
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...women found employment in the women's wear branch of the industry. Use of the sewing machine, patented in 1846 by Elias Howe and further perfected by Isaac Singer, marked a major technical change in the industry from hand to machine labor...

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Encore.(rare 1890's Howe/Orme guitar)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Guitar Player; 10/1/1997; ; 689 words ; There were two men named Elias Howe living in the Boston area in the...vintage-instrument collectors. Elias Howe, Jr., a talented fiddler, grew...MacDonald/Coast Wholesale. An 1890s Elias Howe Company catalog shows an incredible...
Alleged swindler arrested Gedne Howe picked up in New York restaurant
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 8/24/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...put the cuffs on him." Turco said Howe was also at his restaurant for about...mostly keeping quiet, the picture of Howe that has emerged so far is sketchy...who he said he was: a descendant of Elias Howe, inventor of the sewing machine...
1890s Howe-Orme
Magazine article from: Acoustic Guitar; 10/1/2008; ; 587 words ; ...instruments were made for and distributed by the Elias Howe Company, a Boston-based major music publisher...the Haymarket Square neighborhood along with the Elias Howe Company. Elias Howe passed away in 1895, and his sons carried on for...
The 'Separable Fastener' Has A Secure Legacy. And Howe.
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/24/2003; 585 words ; ...path that curves exactly the same way the bowls curve. Elias Howe, the guy who invented the sewing machine, also invented...named Whitcomb Judson came up with a device similar to Howe's. He called it the "Clasp Locker." Judson got all...
Positive parable.(Letters)(Bible; story of Elias)(Letter to the editor)
Magazine article from: Saturday Evening Post; 5/1/2007; ; 345 words ; ...April issue of The Saturday Evening Post. So much of what is in the media today is negative, violence and sexuality. "Elias: A Parable" is so positive. Congratulations and keep up the good work. Robert Howe Bluefield, West Virginia
Baker's Cubs thrash Howe's Mets
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 4/1/2003; 516 words ; ...Louis Browns 17-3 on April 17, 1951, according to the Elias Sports Bureau, baseball's statistician. Sammy Sosa stayed...s Brant Alyea had seven in 1970. For new Mets manager Art Howe -- the ex-A's skipper -- his debut was an utter disaster...
Stitches' Embroidery Hall Of Fame 2005.
Magazine article from: Stitches Magazine; 12/1/2005; 700+ words ; ...from the artistic side. For years, Elias Howe's name has been relegated to the...90s, and continues working today. Elias Howe The road to the invention of the...who we inducted last year) and Elias Howe, the man generally accepted as the...
Alleged swindler brazen above all Phony financier always talked and played a big game
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 8/28/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...himself into preppy-attired "Gedne Howe," a product of Ivy League schools...the wealthy Yankee descendant of Elias Howe, inventor of the sewing machine...constant chatter about his ancestor, Elias Howe, and his Greenwich, Conn., childhood...
Muster some willpower, get off the couch and turn off the TV.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); 4/22/2001; 700+ words ; ...grandfather. From there back, Condit and I trace to John Howe, who came over from England in 1639. John and Mary...maybe some Sunday afternoon to schmooze about Julia Ward Howe and Elias Howe and his sewing machine and Mrs. Elizabeth Howe who...

Newspaper article from: Herald News, The (Joliet, IL); 9/10/2006; 462 words ; ...naval force commanded by Oliver H. Perry defeated the British in the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812. 1846: Elias Howe received a patent for his sewing machine. 1919: New York City welcomed home Gen. John J. Pershing and 25,000 soldiers...