the.com/sewing machine
the machine that stitched the Industrial Revolution into wearable shape and put tailors out of work.
Riot baitAngry French tailors destroyed early machines in 1841
Genius trickNeedle eye sits at the point, not the top
Patent warSinger and Howe fought a brutal courtroom battle
Speed demonModern industrial models hit 5,000 stitches per minute
UnderbellyCreated factory sweatshops almost the moment it arrived