The Singer sewing machine was so revolutionary that even Mahatma Gandhi, who eschewed all other machines, made an exception for it. After learning to sew on a Singer in a British jail, Gandhi called ...

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His first patent in 1839 was for a rock-drilling machine. Ten years later, he invented a wood and metal carving machine. He sold that first invention to a canal building company for $2,000, which ...

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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, ...

Elias was born in 1819 on a farm near Spencer, Mass., and moved to Boston at age 18 to find work in a machine shop. This is where he began tinkering with machines. The machine that made him a legend ...

Just across the Augusta County line in Rockbridge lies the little town of Raphine, which is known as the home of Cyrus McCormick, co-inventor (along with his slave, Jo Anderson) of the reaper, which ...

Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK), the world's leading design software and digital content company, today announced that Korean-based Unicorn Industrial Sewing Machine Corp. (www.unicornmall.co.kr), famous ...