1866 - D. B. Piper's Sewing Machine Patent Model
1866 - D. B. Piper's Sewing Machine Patent Model
- Description
- D. B. Piper, of Winchendon, MA. Sewing Machine Patent Model; Patent number 56,990. August 7, 1866. Improvement in chain stitch sewing machine; An electric connection between the upper and lower shafts of a sewing machine.
- Object Name
- Sewing machine patent model
- date made
- 1866
- ID Number
- TE.T6304
- accession number
- 89797
- patent number
- 56990
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- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Sewing Machines
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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