Elias Howe

Elias Howe

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...
Isaac Singer

Isaac Singer

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...
Walter Hunt

Walter Hunt

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...
James Starley

James Starley

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...

Barthélemy Thimonnier

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...
John Wesley Hyatt

John Wesley Hyatt

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...
George P. Huffman

George P. Huffman

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...
James Edward Allen Gibbs

James Edward Allen Gibbs

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...
Washington Singer

Washington Singer

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...
Lyman Reed Blake

Lyman Reed Blake

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...