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	Elias Howe Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Elias Howe Company was a nineteenth and early twentieth century musical firm located in Boston and founded by Elias Howe, Jr.
		The Elias Howe Company for many years was located at 88 Court Street in Boston and many of the volumes of sheet music and instrumental instruction that the company produced bear that address.
		The principals at that time were Elias's sons Willam H. and Edward F. Howe, who served as president and treasurer, respectively, and their sister Harriet Howe who was the company bookkeeper.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elias_Howe_Company (660 words)

	19th Century Scientific American Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Elias Howe first heard the term sewing machine while working in Boston for Ari Davis, who made and repaired precision instruments.
		Born in 1819 in Spencer, Massachusetts, Howe had apprenticed to a textile mill at sixteen, then, unemployed after the panic of 1837, moved to the big city to seek work and apprenticed to Davis.
		Howe found that in his absence other inventors had usurped his discovery and sewing machines of various designs were everywhere in use.
	www.history.rochester.edu /Scientific_American/mystery/howe.htm (648 words)

	Elias Howe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Elias Howe, Jr., the author of one of the great inventions of modern times, was born in Spencer, Massachusetts, in 1819.
		His father was a farmer and a miller, and young Howe aided him in these pursuits, attending school in the winter, until he was seventeen years old, when he was apprenticed to learn the art of the machinist.
		Howe himself visited this country soon after the arrival of his machine, and superintended its adaptation to the work required to be done by Mr.
	www.todayinsci.com /H/Howe_Elias/HoweElias.htm (460 words)

	Howe
		Howe had clung with all the tenacity of parental fondness to the little machine he had constructed with so much patience and skill in the attic at Cambridgeport-that eldest-born sewing machine-the monument to his genius-the consummation of his fervent hopes and earnest desires.
		How he fared on board the ship which carried him back may be best gathered from the fact that he was a steerage passenger, and that the ship was crowded with emigrants, it being the active time of the season.
		Elias Howe, with characteristic energy and ardour, has thrown himself heart and soul into the struggle, ranging himself under the banner of the few who are really contending for a principle, and fighting for the freedom of the slave.
	www.ismacs.net /howe/howesversion.html (10079 words)

	Case against Howe
		Hard evidence will show that Howe invented nothing, that he was an ungrateful humbug who grew fabulously rich because of a silly filing error enabling him to spend the rest of his life and part of his fortune commissioning bogus biographies to perpetuate the myth.
		Vercamp was Howe's assistant for many years and joined him at a time when Howe was trying to make his crude machine function and it is claimed by some that without his inventive flair, the Howe machine would never have sewn a stitch.
		Howe then tells a story of how he came to England, fell among thieves, was stripped of his invention, cruelly treated, and sent home destitute.
	www.ismacs.net /howe/case.html (1823 words)

	Howe, Elias (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Howe was born in Spencer, Massachusetts, and trained as a machinist.
		Howe went to the UK and sold the invention for £250 to a corset manufacturer named William Thomas of Cheapside, London.
		Howe redeemed his patent, which he had pawned, and sued for infringement.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/H/Howe/1.html (206 words)

	ELIAS HOWE - LoveToKnow Article on ELIAS HOWE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		In September 1846 a patent for a practical sewing machine was granted to him; and Howe spent the following two years (I 8471849) ~fl London, employed by William Thomas, a corset manufacturer, to whom he had sold the English rights for 250.
		Years of disappointment and discouragement followed before he was successful in introducing his invention, and several imitations which infringed his patent, particularly that of Isaac Merritt Singer (f 81 1187 5), had already been successfully introduced and were widely used.
		See History of the Sewing Machine and of Elias Howe, Jr., the Inventor (Detroit, 1867); P. Hubert, Jr., Inventors, in Men of Achievement series (New York, i893).
	69.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HO/HOWE_ELIAS.htm (250 words)

	Elias Howe Pictures
		Elias Howe was born in 1819, in Worcester County, Massachusetts.
		Howe appears to have developed a talent for mechanical repair because the next time we find him, he is working in the shop of Ari Davis, an eccentric maker and repairer of fine machinery.
		Howe became obsessed by the idea, and despite being by this stage married with children, gave up is job to devote all his time to it.
	www.sewingcanada.com /howe.html (917 words)

	Elias Howe: Biography of Elias Howe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Howe, Elias (1819-1867), the inventor of the American sewing machine.
		Young Elias worked for his father on the farm and in the mill, and attended district school in the winter time.
		By all accounts, he was a worthy, industrious, patriotic, inventive man. Howe was by no means the first to work at the general problem of a sewing machine, nor, indeed, was he the first to invent a possible contrivance.
	www.sacklunch.net /biography/H/EliasHowe.html (154 words)

	Mass Moments: Patent Office Rules in Favor of Elias Howe
		Elias Howe was born July 9, 1819, in the central Massachusetts town of Spencer.
		In 1835, Elias Howe moved to Lowell, the new mill town on the Merrimack.
		Elias Howe may not even have known of Hunt's work when he spent five years on his own design and applied for a patent in 1846.
	www.massmoments.org /moment.cfm?mid=192 (1026 words)

	The Baldwin Project: Great Inventors and Their Inventions by Frank P. Bachman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Elias was not a lazy boy, but hard work so taxed his strength as to be very distressing to him.
		Howe was through first, and besides, the umpire of the contest, a tailor, said that the work done on the machine was the neatest and the strongest.
		Howe's departure, the night was very wet and stormy, and her health being delicate she was unable to walk to the ship.
	www.mainlesson.com /display.php?author=bachman&book=inventors&story=howe (4741 words)

	Elias Howe - People of Connecticut
		Unfortunately, Howe's machine sales did not fare well in England, either, and to make matters worse, his patented design began to be imitated on both sides of the ocean.
		From this point on, Howe began to receive royalties on every machine produced in the United States, and other manufacturers, including Isaac Singer, were required to pay Howe the royalties that were due him.
		Elias Howe, inventor of the sewing machine, died in 1867 in Brooklyn, New York.
	www.netstate.com /states/peop/people/ct_eh.htm (412 words)

	ELIAS HOWE - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 9/15 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Elias Howe was born in Spencer, Mass., on July 9, 1819.
		Howe completed his first successful sewing machine in 1845 and was granted a patent for his invention in 1846.
		Howe was only 48 when he died on October 3, 1867, in Brooklyn, N.Y. Before Howe invented the sewing machine, the fastest sewing possible was only about 50 stitches per minute.
	www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/3_2001/medicine/ELIAS_HOWE.htm (505 words)

	New Hartford - History- Town History of 1928 - Elias Howe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		New Hartford is famous as the place where Elias Howe invented the sewing machine.
		In 1845 Howe had a shop in the basement of the old New Hartford House and there perfected the first sewing machine and was granted a patent on it September 10, 1846.
		Howe's machine was the original prototype of the present Singer and other sewing machines.
	www.town.new-hartford.ct.us /hist1928howe.html (89 words)

	Howe's School for the Fife (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Before proceeding with the story of Elias Howe, it is necessary to dispel the notion that the "Elias Howe" of fife and drum fame was also the inventor of the sewing machine.
		The latter "Elias Howe" was born in Spencer, Massachusetts in 1819 and our "Elias Howe" first saw the light of day in Framingham, Massachusetts a year later.
		Elias Howe, the musician, was first a farmer in Framingham.
	www.beafifer.com /howeschool.htm (447 words)

	New Hartford Historical Society - Elias Howe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Elias Howe invented the sewing machine in New Hartford probably between 1845 and 1846-during that period he was employed as a mechanic by the Greenwoods Company.
		This article notes that for the eight years following the patenting of his sewing machine, Howe was "wretchingly poor." After inventing the sewing machine, Howe faced poverty and traveled to England to sell British rights to the machine.
		Howe was born in Spencer, Massachusetts in 1819 and at age 16 he became an apprentice in a factory in Lowell, Massachusetts making cotton machinery.
	www.newhartfordhistory.org /eliashowe.html (261 words)

	Youngfolk's Book of Invention
		Elias Howe was born in 1819, the son of a miller in the small town of Spencer in Massachusetts.
		Howe went on to make a shuttle and a curved needle, and at last, in the autumn of 1844, he put together his first machine, and to his great delight found that it would work.
		Howe’s triumph was complete, for his five strips were finished before any one of the handworkers had completed even half of his task.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/topic/preservation/science/inventions/chpt12.htm (2296 words)

	Today in History: July 9
		1819: Elias Howe, inventor of the sewing machine, was born in Spencer, Massachusetts.
		On July 9, 1819, Elias Howe, inventor of the sewing machine, was born in Spencer, Massachusetts.
		Howe fought a legal battle with these inventors to see that his rights in the invention were recognized, winning one of his suits in 1856.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ammem/today/jul09.html (1422 words)

	Howe, Elias. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		No financial backing was secured in the United States, and in 1846 a third machine was sold in England, together with all rights in Great Britain, to William Thomas.
		Howe worked with Thomas in London to produce a machine to stitch leather.
		After a breach between the two, Howe returned to the United States to find his machine being manufactured by others.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ho/Howe-Eli.html (214 words)

	Needlecrafts, Sewing, Crafts: Elias Howe?
		Elias Howe did not invent the first sewing machine.
		Howe continued to develop his machine; by 1845 he had completed a machine that was able to perform all the stitchwork to assemble two suits of woolen clothes.
		Because of this, Howe's machine could not be considered a serious solution to the sewing problem and was therefore not a true and practical "sewing machine".
	www.needlecrafting.com /nohowe.html (1243 words)

	Invent Now \| Hall of Fame \| Search \| Inventor Profile
		Elias Howe invented the first practical sewing machine.
		In a public demonstration, Howe's invention proved to be five times faster than the swiftest hand sewers.
		In 1865, he established the Howe Machine Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut, and the machine that he produced there won the gold medal at the Paris Exhibition of 1867.
	www.invent.org /hall_of_fame/206.html (194 words)

	GREAT EPOCHS IN AMERICAN HISTORY
		When old enough, Elias assisted his father on the mill and farm, and it was when employed in the former, it is said, that he acquired that direction of taste and talent which developed itself so fruitfully both for himself and for his country.
		In 1835 he went to Lowell, and was employed there as a learner in a manufactory of cotton machinery, where he remained until the financial panic of 1837, when, like others, the stopping of the mills left him unemployed.
		Howe now found friends, and, after some delay, the necessary funds to establish his rights.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/topic/preservation/epochs/vol7/pg48.htm (1070 words)

	Sewing Machine History - Invention of the Sewing Machine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		But in 1846 Elias Howe changed all that, he came up with another way to make clothes, he patented the first practical sewing machine..The sewing machine industry based on his original invention made possible the mass production of clothing on a much larger scale than had ever been possible with hand-stitching.
		Elias Howe was born in Spencer, Massachusetts, on the July 10, 1819.
		Although Singer’s early machines were based on Howe’s concept, he later patented the rigid arm for holding the needle and a vertical bar to hold the cloth down against the upward stroke of the needle.
	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventions/story065.htm (1765 words)

	Elias Howe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Elias Howe was born in Spencer Massachusetts in 1819.
		At age 16 Elias went to Lowell to work in a factory that made cotton-weaving machines.
		Elias Howe died on October 3, 1867 in Brooklyn, New York.
	www.newton.mec.edu /brown/te/INVENTORS/INVENTORS/byKIDS/yule.html (119 words)

	Progressive Ears Album Reviews
		Almost universally panned and reviled by prog fans and most of the band members as well, it did not the herald the happy cooperation of eight powerful prog personas; instead, it was the forced merging of a fractured band.
		Apparently Elias was left with an unfinished heap and had to make do as best he could.
		Howe's solo piece "Masquerade" is another gem; its simple, no BS approach stood in stark contrast to the disorderly patchwork of the rest of the album.
	www.progressiveears.com /asp/reviews.asp?albumID=1749 (1028 words)

	Elias Howe -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		For five years Howe spent all his spare time in the development of a practical sewing machine, and in 1846 he was granted a patent for it.
		The machine attracted little attention in the United States at first, and, when a fortune was not forthcoming, Howe sold the patent rights in England for £250 ($1,250).
		Before Elias Howe invented the sewing machine, the fastest sewing possible was only about 50 stitches per minute.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9041238 (843 words)

	Howe, Elias on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		HOWE, ELIAS [Howe, Elias] 1819-67, American inventor, b.
		With the royalties earned through an extension of his patent (1861-67), he supported during the Civil War an infantry regiment in which he served as a private and in 1865 established in Bridgeport, Conn., the Howe Machine Company.
		Archive Photos 01-01-1995 Singer Sewing MachineIsaac Merritt Singer was the first inventor to receive a patent on a sewing machine in 1851, although he consequently became embroiled in a legal dispute with Elias Howe, the inventor of an earlier model that did not receive a patent.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/h/howe-e1li.asp (471 words)

	CONCERTINA.net - Back to the Future: De Ville¹s The Concertina and How to Play It and Other Tutors
		Paul de Ville, The Concertina and How to Play It (New York: Carl Fischer, Inc., 1905) is one of the most widely available sources of basic instruction and tunes for the Anglo concertina.
		A somewhat surprising discovery is that 208 of the 250 tunes in The Concertina and How to Play It were taken directly from two books by Elias Howe, Jr.
		Both Elias Howes were descendents of John Howe, who settled in Massachusetts in the 1600s.
	www.concertina.net /rm_backfuture.html (1896 words)

	Howe-Orme Mandolinetto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		However, a quick stroll over to the encyclopedia reveals that Elias patented his sewing machine in 1846 and died in 1867, which leaves twenty-six years until he would patent "his" mandolins.
		The guy we’re concerned with (and by the way, the two were related - both descendants of John Howe of the 1600's - and both born in Massachusetts within a year of each other!) was born in 1820 in Framingham, MA and died in 1895 in Watertown, MA.
		The "Howe" was Elias - who passed away before these instruments were developed – or more specifically, the Elias Howe Company – formed in 1840 and inherited (and incorporated) by sons Edward and William in 1898 (with a store surviving until 1931).
	home.earthlink.net /~minermusic/eliashowe.htm (1234 words)

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