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Very interesting history, even ignoring European developments.

Walter Hunt, Elias Howe, Walter Hunt and Isaac Singer all contributed. To solve patent disputes, the various claimants pooled their patents, and a royalty was paid to Howe for every machine made.

Howe grew up in MA, apprenticed at the Lowell mills, and was issued an uncontested patent in 1846. There had been a much earlier development of a lock stitch machine but the inventor, Walter Hunt, did not submit a patent application until later.

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[QUOTE="garandman, post: 9334861, member: 10471"] Very interesting history, even ignoring European developments. Walter Hunt, Elias Howe, Walter Hunt and Isaac Singer all contributed. To solve patent disputes, the various claimants pooled their patents, and a royalty was paid to Howe for every machine made. Howe grew up in MA, apprenticed at the Lowell mills, and was issued an uncontested patent in 1846. There had been a much earlier development of a lock stitch machine but the inventor, Walter Hunt, did not submit a patent application until later. [MEDIA=youtube]DARBpJD6l30[/MEDIA] [i][size=2][url=https://youtu.be/DARBpJD6l30]View: https://youtu.be/DARBpJD6l30[/url][/size][/i] [/QUOTE]

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