Walter Hunt was a prolific inventor and was described by Smithsonian curator Grace Rogers Cooper in her 1968 paper, The Invention of the Sewing Machine, as a “Yankee mechanical genius.” ...

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In the United States, the first practical sewing machine was produced by inventor Walter Hunt, but his device was not commercially successful. Elias Howe is usually credited with the invention of ...

And the repetition and uniformity of the sewing machine present their own problems. The first innovator to dream up the idea of a two-thread machine, Walter Hunt, backed away from his own insight ...

For American inventor Walter Hunt spent a lifetime inventing ... was Hunt’s first. In 1833, Hunt invented a sewing machine that used a lockstitch – the first time an inventor had not tried ...

Walter Hunt (1785-1859), a 19th century engineer and machinist, was only a bit player in the history of the sewing machine but he was a prolific “Yankee mechanical genius” who had a penchant ...

American Walter Hunt came up with a back-stitching sewing machine in the early 1830s, but was afraid it would result in the massive unemployment of seamstresses. So he declined to patent it.

The first American lockstitch sewing machine was invented in 1832 by Walter Hunt. The patent for America’s first sewing machine was secured by John Greenough in 1842. A decade later, Isaac ...

Walter Hunt. Here's a name we should know, but we probably don't. Did he invent the sewing machine, the safety pin, or the knife sharpener? If you said all of the above, you win. On this day in ...

Walter Hunt, the American inventor who came up with the next workable sewing machine, abandoned his design when he grasped a horrible inevitability: his invention would put thousands of tailors ...