Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . He did this successfully, andthe restored machine, still operative andready to sew good, strong seams, is yet inexistence. Without drawing further, however, fromthis curiously interesting ch
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . He did this successfully, andthe restored machine, still operative andready to sew good, strong seams, is yet inexistence. Without drawing further, however, fromthis curiously interesting chapter in thehistory of the machine, involving a ques-tion of the deepest interest to inventors,it is time to describe the instrument—itsparts and peculiar features, and modusoperandi,— invented by Mr. Howe, andwhich transformed him from an obscureand struggling mechanic to one of theforemost manufacturers and millionairesin America Seating ourselves thereforebefore this wonderful elaboration of artis-tic genius and skill, as it has come freshfrom the hands of the toilsome but at lastsuccessful inventor, and witnessing itsweird and agile movement while its enthu-siastic proprietor essays to sew a seam, wefind that two threads are employed, one ofwhich is carried through the cloth bymeans of a curved needle, the pointed endof which passes through the cloth; the 468 OUR FIRST CENTURY.— THE OLD AND NEW: 8SWINO BY HAND AND MACHINE. needle used has the ejc that is to receivethe thread within a small distance, say aneighth of an inch, of its inner or pointedend, the other or outer end of the needlebeing held by an arm that vibrates on apivot or joint pin, the curvature of theneedle being such as to correspond withthe length of the arm as its radius. When the thread is carried through tliecloth, which may be done to the distanceof about three-fourths of an inch, the threadwill bo stretched above the curved needle,something in the manner of a bowstring,leaving a small o
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