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.” He ...

Sewing Machine Invention, (First;) J. R. Chapin's Statement. REAL INVENTOR OF THE SEWING MACHINE; A Claim of Priority Asserted for Walter Hunt of This City.

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 ...

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 ...

The first innovator to dream up the idea of a two-thread machine, Walter Hunt, backed away from his own insight for fear of casting seamstresses into unemployment.

This was one of Hunt’s many inventions, the more popular of which are the safety pin and the sewing machine. Join A.S.Ganesh as he takes a look at Hunt and his lifelong commitment to inventing ...

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.

By Maxine Shapiro, KERA 90.1 business commentatorDallas, TX – As history is being made in Iraq, let's take a lighter look at a couple of historical events… ...

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