Book tour tickets and details here. How the sewing machine got us … software Book tour tickets and details here. Today, the story of three inventions. The first, the sewing machine, was created by a ...

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 ...

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An invention at the heart of our modern world helped create radios, cars and smartphones. The team from Planet Money traces the origins back to a fight over who invented the sewing machine. How do ...

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 ...

Many of the stories that I share in this biweekly column are suggested by readers. These are related to a place or event I remember from growing up during the early baby boom years in the Berkshires.

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