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- Elias Howe

	Categories: 1819 births \| 1867 deaths \| People from Massachusetts \| U.S. inventors \| Autodidacts Elias Howe Elias Howe (July 9, 1819 - October 3, 1867) was an American sewing machine pioneer. He did not invent the sewing machine (that was Charles Fredrick Weisenthal ) but was awarded the first United States patent for a sewing machine using lock stitch. Categories: 1819 births \| 1867 deaths \| People from Massachusetts \| U.S. inventors \| Autodidacts

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Elias Howe