Invention for Improvement in Sewing Machines
Invention for Improvement in Sewing Machines
- Description (Brief)
- Blanchard’s improvement in “Sewing-Machines” used the buttonhole stitch. She is best remembered for another overstitch sewing invention, the “zig zag.”
- date made
- 1873
- patent date
- 1873-08-19
- maker
- Blanchard, Helen A.
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 17.5 cm x 20 cm x 42 cm; 6 7/8 in x 7 7/8 in x 16 17/32 in
- ID Number
- TE.T06433.000
- catalog number
- T06433.000
- accession number
- 89797
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Work
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Domestic Furnishings
- Patent Models
- Family & Social Life
- Invention and the Patent Model
- Exhibition
- Inventing In America
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
