An invention at the heart of our modern world helped create radios, cars and smartphones. The team from Planet Money traces the origins back to a fight over who invented the sewing machine.

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I'm thankful I was born in the 20th century, well after sewing machines went into mass production. They've come a long way from hand cranks and treadles to electronic and computerized models. For a ...

Book tour tickets and details here. How the sewing machine got us … software Book tour tickets and details here. Today, the story of three inventions. The first, the sewing machine, was created by a ...

We're relying on the experts to answer this one and who better than the folks from the International Sewing Machine Collectors' Society? Historians of the sewing machine's early days can argue for ...

IN Cornhill, Boston, thirty years ago, there was a shop for the manufacture and repair of nautical instruments and philosophical apparatus, kept by Ari Davis. Mr. Davis was a very ingenious mechanic, ...

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A SIMPLE but unique toolkit devised by a Hampshire man is set to revolutionise sewing machine maintenance in povertystricken areas of Africa. Alan Busher’s invention is a big hit with bosses at the ...