- male, deceased (1867)
- Elias Howe was an American inventor and sewing machine pioneer. He was born in Spencer, Massachusetts. Contrary to popular belief, he did not...
- male, deceased (1875)
- Isaac Merritt Singer was an American inventor, actor, and entrepreneur. He made important improvements in the design of the sewing machine and was...
- male, deceased (1859)
- Walter Hunt was an American mechanic. He lived and worked in New York state. Through the course of his work he became renowned for being a prolific...
- male, deceased (1881)
- James Starley (Born April 21, 1830, died June 17, 1881) was an English inventor and "Father of the Bicycle Industry." He was born in 1831 at...
- male, deceased (1857)
- Barthélemy Thimonnier, born on August 19 1793 in France, invented the first sewing machine that replicated sewing by hand. The patent for his m...
- male, deceased (1920)
- John Wesley Hyatt (November 28, 1837 - 10 May, 1920) was a U.S. inventor. He is mainly known for simplifying the production of celluloid. Hyatt was...
- male, deceased (1897)
- George P. Huffman (1862-1897) was an American businessman. His Davis Sewing Machine Company, which began producing bicycles in the late nineteenth...
- male, deceased (1902)
- James Edward Allen Gibbs (1829-1902) was a farmer, inventor, and businessman from Rockbridge County in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. On June...
- male, deceased (1934)
- Washington Merritt Grant Singer (1866-1934) was an English philanthropist and prominent racehorse owner. Born in Yonkers, New York he was the third...
- male, deceased (1883)
- Lyman Reed Blake (August 24, 1835 - October 3, 1883) was an American inventor who devised a sewing machine for sewing the soles of shoes to the...
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