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class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_Howe" title="Elias Howe – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Elias Howe" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_Howe" title="Elias Howe – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Elias Howe" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_Howe" title="Elias Howe – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Elias Howe" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a 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href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_Howe" title="Elias Howe – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Elias Howe" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%90%D7%A1_%D7%94%D7%90%D7%95" title="אליאס האו – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="אליאס האו" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_Howe" title="Elias Howe – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Elias Howe" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Jawa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a 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class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">American inventor (1819–1867)</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">This article is about the inventor of the sewing machine. For the music publisher and his company, see <a href="/wiki/Elias_Howe_Company" title="Elias Howe Company">Elias Howe Company</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Elias Howe</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Elias_Howe_portrait.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Elias_Howe_portrait.jpg/220px-Elias_Howe_portrait.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="245" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Elias_Howe_portrait.jpg/330px-Elias_Howe_portrait.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Elias_Howe_portrait.jpg 2x" data-file-width="383" data-file-height="426" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Elias Howe Jr.</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1819-07-09</span>)</span>July 9, 1819<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Spencer,_Massachusetts" title="Spencer, Massachusetts">Spencer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">October 3, 1867<span style="display:none">(1867-10-03)</span> (aged 48)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Brooklyn,_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="Brooklyn, New York">Brooklyn, New York</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">American</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data">apprenticed as mechanic and machinist</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role">Engineer</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">Elizabeth Jennings Ames (m. 1841; d. 1850)<br />Rose Halladay (d. 1890)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">Jane Robinson Howe,<br />Simon Ames Howe,<br />Julia Maria Howe</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parent(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">Elias Howe and Polly (Bemis) Howe</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /><b>Engineering career</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Discipline</th><td class="infobox-data category">Mechanical Engineering</td></tr><tr class="note"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Projects</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sewing_machine" title="Sewing machine">Sewing machine</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Significant advance</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lockstitch" title="Lockstitch">Lockstitch loop method</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data">Gold Medal, Paris Exposition of 1867,<br /><a href="/wiki/L%C3%A9gion_d%27honneur" class="mw-redirect" title="Légion d'honneur">Légion d'honneur</a> (France)</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Elias Howe Jr.</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="'h' in 'hi'">h</span><span title="/aʊ/: 'ou' in 'mouth'">aʊ</span></span>/</a></span></span>; July 9, 1819 – October 3, 1867) was an American <a href="/wiki/Inventor" class="mw-redirect" title="Inventor">inventor</a> best known for his creation of the modern <a href="/wiki/Lockstitch" title="Lockstitch">lockstitch</a> <a href="/wiki/Sewing_machine" title="Sewing machine">sewing machine</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elias_Howe&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Elias Howe Jr. was born on July 9, 1819, to Dr. Elias Howe Sr (1792–1867) and Polly (Bemis) Howe (1791–1871) in <a href="/wiki/Spencer,_Massachusetts" title="Spencer, Massachusetts">Spencer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a>. Howe spent his childhood and early adult years in Massachusetts, where he apprenticed in a textile factory in <a href="/wiki/Lowell,_Massachusetts" title="Lowell, Massachusetts">Lowell</a> beginning in 1835. After mill closings due to the <a href="/wiki/Panic_of_1837" title="Panic of 1837">Panic of 1837</a>, he moved to <a href="/wiki/Cambridge,_Massachusetts" title="Cambridge, Massachusetts">Cambridge, Massachusetts</a>, to work as a mechanic with <a href="/wiki/Carding" title="Carding">carding</a> machinery, apprenticing along with his cousin <a href="/wiki/Nathaniel_P._Banks" title="Nathaniel P. Banks">Nathaniel P. Banks</a>. In the beginning of 1838, he apprenticed in the shop of Ari Davis, a master mechanic in Cambridge who specialized in the manufacture and repair of chronometers and other precision instruments.<sup id="cite_ref-nihf_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nihf-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was in the employ of Davis that Howe seized upon the idea of the sewing machine. </p><p>He married Elizabeth Jennings Ames, daughter of Simon Ames and Jane B. Ames, on March 3, 1841, in Cambridge.<sup id="cite_ref-ERA_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ERA-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They had three children: Jane Robinson Howe (1842–1912), Simon Ames Howe (1844–1883), and Julia Maria Howe (1846–1869). He then married Rose Halladay. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Invention_of_sewing_machine_and_career">Invention of sewing machine and career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elias_Howe&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Invention of sewing machine and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:US-Patent4750-sewing_machine.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/44/US-Patent4750-sewing_machine.jpg/220px-US-Patent4750-sewing_machine.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="219" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/44/US-Patent4750-sewing_machine.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="252" data-file-height="251" /></a><figcaption>Howe's sewing machine</figcaption></figure> <p>Howe was not the first to conceive of the idea of a sewing machine. Many other people had formulated the idea of such a machine before him, one as early as 1790, and some had even patented their designs and produced working machines, in one case at least 80 of them.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, Howe originated significant refinements to the design concepts of his predecessors, and on September 10, 1846, he was awarded the first United States <a href="/wiki/Patent" title="Patent">patent</a> (<span><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US4750">U.S. patent 4,750</a></span>) for a sewing machine using a <a href="/wiki/Lockstitch" title="Lockstitch">lockstitch</a> design. His machine contained the three essential features common to most modern machines: a needle with the eye at the point, a shuttle operating beneath the cloth to form the lock stitch, and an automatic feed. </p><p>A possibly apocryphal account of how he came up with the idea for placing the eye of the needle at the point is recorded in a family history of his mother's family: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>He almost beggared himself before he discovered where the eye of the needle of the sewing machine should be located. It is probable that there are very few people who know how it came about. His original idea was to follow the model of the ordinary needle, and have the eye at the heel. It never occurred to him that it should be placed near the point, and he might have failed altogether if he had not dreamed he was building a sewing machine for a savage king in a strange country. Just as in his actual working experience, he was perplexed about the needle's eye. He thought the king gave him twenty-four hours in which to complete the machine and make it sew. If not finished in that time death was to be the punishment. Howe worked and worked, and puzzled, and finally gave it up. Then he thought he was taken out to be executed. He noticed that the warriors carried spears that were pierced near the head. Instantly came the solution of the difficulty, and while the inventor was begging for time, he awoke. It was 4 o'clock in the morning. He jumped out of bed, ran to his workshop, and by 9, a needle with an eye at the point had been crudely modeled. After that it was easy. That is the true story of an important incident in the invention of the sewing machine.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Despite securing his patent, Howe had considerable difficulty finding investors in the United States to finance production of his invention, so his elder brother Amasa Bemis Howe traveled to England in October 1846 to seek financing. Amasa was able to sell his first machine for £250 to William Thomas of <a href="/wiki/Cheapside" title="Cheapside">Cheapside</a>, <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, who owned a factory for the manufacture of corsets, umbrellas and valises. Elias and his family joined Amasa in London in 1848, but after business disputes with Thomas and failing health of his wife, Howe returned nearly penniless to the United States. His wife Elizabeth, who preceded Elias back to the United States, died in Cambridge, Massachusetts shortly after his return in 1849.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Despite his efforts to sell his machine, other entrepreneurs began manufacturing sewing machines. Howe was forced to defend his patent in a court case that lasted from 1849 to 1854 because he found that <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Singer" title="Isaac Singer">Isaac Singer</a> with cooperation from <a href="/wiki/Walter_Hunt_(inventor)" title="Walter Hunt (inventor)">Walter Hunt</a> had perfected a facsimile of his machine and was selling it with the same lockstitch that Howe had invented and patented. He won the dispute and earned considerable <a href="/wiki/Royalties" class="mw-redirect" title="Royalties">royalties</a> from Singer and others for sales of his invention.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Howe contributed much of the money he earned to providing equipment for the <a href="/wiki/17th_Connecticut_Infantry_Regiment" title="17th Connecticut Infantry Regiment">17th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry</a> of the Union Army during the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Civil War">Civil War</a>, in which Howe served as a private in Company D. Due to his faltering health he performed light duty, often seen walking with the aid of his <a href="/wiki/Shillelagh_(club)" class="mw-redirect" title="Shillelagh (club)">shillelagh</a>, and took on the position of Regimental Postmaster, serving out his time riding to and from Baltimore with war news. He'd enlisted August 14, 1862, and then mustered out July 19, 1865.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Involvement_in_inventing_the_zipper">Involvement in inventing the zipper</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elias_Howe&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Involvement in inventing the zipper"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Howe received a <a href="/wiki/Patent" title="Patent">patent</a> in 1851 for an "Automatic, Continuous Clothing Closure". Perhaps because of the success of his sewing machine, he did not try to seriously market it, missing recognition he might otherwise have received.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Adult_life_and_legacy">Adult life and legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elias_Howe&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Adult life and legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Elias_Howe,_commemorative_stamp,_5c_1940_issue.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Elias_Howe%2C_commemorative_stamp%2C_5c_1940_issue.jpg/220px-Elias_Howe%2C_commemorative_stamp%2C_5c_1940_issue.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="241" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Elias_Howe%2C_commemorative_stamp%2C_5c_1940_issue.jpg/330px-Elias_Howe%2C_commemorative_stamp%2C_5c_1940_issue.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Elias_Howe%2C_commemorative_stamp%2C_5c_1940_issue.jpg/440px-Elias_Howe%2C_commemorative_stamp%2C_5c_1940_issue.jpg 2x" data-file-width="713" data-file-height="781" /></a><figcaption>Howe commemorative, 1940 issue</figcaption></figure> <p>Between 1854 and 1871/72, Elias's older brother, Amasa Bemis Howe (died in 1868), and later his son Benjamin Porter Howe, owned and operated a factory in New York City, producing sewing machines under the name of the <i>Howe Sewing Machine Co</i>., which won a gold medal at the London Exhibition of 1862. Between 1865 and 1867, Elias himself established The <i>Howe Machine Co</i>. in Bridgeport, Connecticut, that was operated by Elias's sons-in-law, the Stockwell Brothers, until about 1886. Elias Howe's sewing machine won a gold medal at the Paris Exhibition of 1867,<sup id="cite_ref-nihf_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nihf-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and that same year he was awarded the <a href="/wiki/L%C3%A9gion_d%27honneur" class="mw-redirect" title="Légion d'honneur">Légion d'honneur</a> by <a href="/wiki/Napoleon_III" title="Napoleon III">Napoleon III</a> for his invention.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1873, Benjamin P. Howe sold the Howe Sewing Machine Co. factory and name to the Howe Machine Co., which merged the two companies. </p><p>Elias Howe died at age 48, on October 3, 1867, of gout and a massive blood clot. He was buried in <a href="/wiki/Green-Wood_Cemetery" title="Green-Wood Cemetery">Green-Wood Cemetery</a> in <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn,_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="Brooklyn, New York">Brooklyn, New York</a>. His second wife, Rose Halladay, who died on October 10, 1890, is buried with him. Both Singer and Howe were multi-millionaires.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Howe's father died two months later on December 28, 1867, one day after his 75th birthday. </p><p>Howe was commemorated with a 5-cent stamp in the Famous American Inventors series issued October 14, 1940.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 1965 <a href="/wiki/Beatles" class="mw-redirect" title="Beatles">Beatles</a> movie <i><a href="/wiki/Help!_(film)" title="Help! (film)">Help!</a></i> is dedicated to his memory. <sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> In 2004 he was inducted into the United States <a href="/wiki/National_Inventors_Hall_of_Fame" title="National Inventors Hall of Fame">National Inventors Hall of Fame</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nihf_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nihf-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Genealogy">Genealogy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elias_Howe&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Genealogy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Howe was a descendant of John Howe (1602–1680) who arrived in <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Bay_Colony" title="Massachusetts Bay Colony">Massachusetts Bay Colony</a> in 1630 from <a href="/wiki/Brinklow" title="Brinklow">Brinklow</a>, Warwickshire, England, and settled in <a href="/wiki/Sudbury,_Massachusetts" title="Sudbury, Massachusetts">Sudbury, Massachusetts</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. 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