* 1842 – John Greenough is granted the first U. S. patent for the sewing machine.

Isaac Singer, who made improvements to an existing model of a sewing machine in the 1850s, began one of the first franchising efforts in the United States, followed later by Coca-Cola, Western Union, etc.

* September 10 – Elias Howe is awarded the first United States patent for a sewing machine using a lockstitch design.

Nylon, the first fiber synthesized entirely from petrochemicals, was introduced as a sewing thread by DuPont in 1936, followed by DuPont's acrylic in 1944.

Singer Corporation is a manufacturer of sewing machines, first established as I. M.

In 1885 Singer produced its first " vibrating shuttle " sewing machine, an improvement over contemporary oscillating shuttle designs.

The Compaq was the first sewing machine-sized portable computer that was essentially 100 % PC-compatible.

* 1830 – Barthélemy Thimonnier develops the first functional sewing machine.

* 1842 – John Greenough patents the first sewing machine in the United States.

Due to the enormous labour involved in sewing each ostrich feather to the dress, Astaire — who normally approved his partner's gowns and suggested modifications if necessary during rehearsals — saw the dress for the first time on the day of the shoot, and was horrified at the way it shed clouds of feathers at every twist and turn, recalling later: " It was like a chicken attacked by a coyote, I never saw so many feathers in my life.

In the early 1920s, Hopper painted his first such pictures Girl at Sewing Machine ( 1921 ), New York Interior ( another woman sewing ) ( 1921 ), and Moonlight Interior ( a nude getting into bed ) ( 1923 ).

Sewing machines were invented during the first Industrial Revolution to decrease the amount of manual sewing work performed in clothing companies.

Since the invention of the first working sewing machine, generally considered to have been the work of Englishman Thomas Saint in 1790, the sewing machine has vastly improved the efficiency and productivity of fabric, clothing and needle industries.

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The first known use of the word sewing was in the 14th century.

It was one of the first manufacturers of sewing machines

The manufacture of shirts was begun about 1855 by Caleb W. Scriven, who introduced the first sewing machine in the town.

Duncan bore two children, both out of wedlock — the first, Deirdre ( born September 24, 1906 ), by theatre designer Gordon Craig, and the second, Patrick ( born May 1, 1910 ), by Paris Singer, one of the many sons of sewing machine magnate Isaac Singer.

The first company was founded by the Stoewer brothers, Emil ( lived 1873-1942 ) and Bernhard ( 1875-1937 ) in 1896 for manufacturing sewing machines in Stettin.

The first suits used traditional sewing methods to simply overlap two strips of rubber and sew them together.

The story begins as Laura accepts her first job performing sewing work in order to earn money for Mary to go to a college for the blind in Iowa.

A person upon first seeing a ball bonder will usually compare its operation to that of a sewing machine.

One can explore the mathematics involved in things like traditional women's work, like knitting, embroidery and sewing, how monitoring menstruation may have been one of the first examples of mathematical use.

Joseph Brown continued in business by himself, quickly rebuilding the establishment which had been lost in the fire and beginning those first steps which were to establish him as a pioneer in raising the standards of accuracy of machine shop practice throughout the world.

The first rattle of the machine guns, at 7:10 in the evening, roused around me the varied voices and faces of fear.

Of the two, Porter is justly the better known, for he went far beyond the vital finding of fiction for films to take the first step toward fashioning a language of film, toward making the motion picture the intricate, efficient time machine that it has remained since, even in the most inept hands.

The practices of total war, developed by Sherman in Georgia, the experimental use of the first usable predecessor of the machine gun and of trench warfare around Petersburg, all foreshadowed World War I in Europe.

In recognition of her additions to Menabrea's paper, which included a way to calculate Bernoulli numbers using the machine, she has been described as the first computer programmer.

Henry also proposed building a demonstration version of the full engine, with a smaller storage capacity: " perhaps for a first machine ten ( columns ) would do, with fifteen wheels in each ".

The machine was, however, the first to implement three critical ideas that are still part of every modern computer:

* 1888 – The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.

This machine was an ornithopter, with flapping wings similar to those of a bird, first presented in his Codex on the Flight of Birds in 1505.

The complexity of executing an algorithm with a human-assisted Turing machine is given by a pair, where the first element represents the complexity of the human's part and the second element is the complexity of the machine's part.

The term BIOS ( Basic Input / Output System ) was invented by Gary Kildall and first appeared in the CP / M operating system in 1975, describing the machine-specific part of CP / M loaded during boot time that interfaces directly with the hardware ( a CP / M machine usually has only a simple boot loader in its ROM ).

The computer Deep Blue was the first machine player to overcome a reigning World Chess Champion when it defeated Garry Kasparov in 1997.

The first influential writer to propose such an idea explicitly was Julien Offray de La Mettrie, in his book Man a Machine ( L ' homme machine ).

However, the possibility of actually constructing a conscious machine was probably first discussed by Ada Lovelace, in a set of notes written in 1842 about the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage, a precursor ( never built ) to modern electronic computers.

But as the halting problem is not generally solvable, and therefore calculating any but the first few bits of Chaitin's constant is not possible, this just reduces hard problems to impossible ones, much like trying to build an oracle machine for the halting problem would be.

The first widespread use of a chord keyboard was in the stenotype machine used by court reporters, which was invented in 1868 and is still in use.

The first system implementing machine improvisation by means of Markov models and style modeling techniques is the Continuator, developed by François Pachet at Sony CSL Paris in 2002.

Thomas Bell patented the technique of printing by copper rollers in 1783, and the first machine was set up by Livesey, Hargreaves & Co near Preston in 1785.

The 18th century saw the arrival of some interesting improvements, first by Poleni with the first fully functional calculating clock and four-operation machine, but these machines were almost always one of the kind.

The Arithmometer, invented in 1820 as a four-operation mechanical calculator, was released to production in 1851 as an adding machine and became the first commercially successful unit ; forty years later, by 1890, about 2, 500 arithmometers had been sold plus a few hundreds more from two arithmometer clone makers ( Burkhardt, Germany, 1878 and Layton, UK, 1883 ) and Felt and Tarrant, the only other competitor in true commercial production, had sold 100 comptometers.

The first ( retroactively ) RISC-labeled processor ( IBM 801-IBMs Watson Research Center, mid-1970s ) was a tightly pipelined simple machine originally intended to be used as an internal microcode kernel, or engine, in CISC designs, but also became the processor that introduced the RISC idea to a somewhat larger public.

In order to test their new circuitry, they first built a small 18-bit machine known as TX-0 which first ran in 1956.

The LINC proved to attract intense interest in the scientific community, and has since been referred to as the first real minicomputer, a machine that was small and inexpensive enough to be dedicated to a single task even in a small lab.