<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e83e298e-fcf5-40c5-8e71-b69ad52c5f3a/C186A379-1277-40B6-AD33-C6F52D4FE7E4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elias_Howe&oldid=313421369" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elias_Howe&oldid=313421369" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elias_Howe&oldid=313421369"><P><B>Elias Howe</B> (<SPAN title="1819-07-09" class="mw-formatted-date"><SPAN title="07-09" class="mw-formatted-date"><A title="July 9" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_9">July 9</A></SPAN>, <A title="1819" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1819">1819</A></SPAN> – <SPAN title="1867-10-03" class="mw-formatted-date"><SPAN title="10-03" class="mw-formatted-date"><A title="October 3" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_3">October 3</A></SPAN>, <A title="1867" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1867">1867</A></SPAN>) was an <A title="United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States">American</A> <A title="Inventor" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventor">inventor</A> and <A title="Sewing machine" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewing_machine">sewing machine</A> pioneer. He was born in <A title="Spencer, Massachusetts" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer,_Massachusetts">Spencer</A>, <A title="Massachusetts" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts">Massachusetts</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elias_Howe&oldid=313421369"><P>Contrary to popular belief that he was the first to conceive of the idea of a sewing machine, many other people, including <A title="Walter Hunt" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Hunt">Walter Hunt</A>, had worked on the idea of such a machine before him. However, Howe refined these ideas into a functional machine and on <SPAN title="1846-09-10" class="mw-formatted-date"><SPAN title="09-10" class="mw-formatted-date"><A title="September 10" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_10">September 10</A></SPAN>, <A title="1846" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1846">1846</A></SPAN>, he was awarded the first United States <A title="Patent" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent">patent</A> (#4750) for a sewing machine using a <A title="Lockstitch" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockstitch">lockstitch</A> design.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elias_Howe&oldid=313421369"><P>In 1865, he established the Howe Machine Company of <A title="Bridgeport, Connecticut" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport,_Connecticut">Bridgeport, Connecticut</A>. His sewing machine won the gold medal at the Paris Exhibition of 1867.<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-nihf_0-1"><A href="#cite_note-nihf-0"><SPAN>[</SPAN>1<SPAN>]</SPAN></A></SUP></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elias_Howe&oldid=313421369"><P>Howe died at age 48, in 1867. He was buried in <A title="Green-Wood Cemetery" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green-Wood_Cemetery">Green-Wood Cemetery</A> in <A class="mw-redirect" title="Brooklyn, New York" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn,_New_York">Brooklyn</A>, <A title="New York" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York">New York</A> although some say he was buried in London, England. Both Singer and Howe ended their days as multi-millionaires.<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-2"><A href="#cite_note-2"><SPAN>[</SPAN>3<SPAN>]</SPAN></A></SUP> Howe was inducted in 2004 into the United States National Inventors Hall of Fame.<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-nihf_0-2"><A href="#cite_note-nihf-0"><SPAN>[</SPAN>1<SPAN>]</SPAN></A></SUP></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C186A379-1277-40B6-AD33-C6F52D4FE7E4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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