Thomas saint sewing machine biography meaning of life

The Thomas Saint replica, made by sewing machine maker and historian W. Newton-Wilson is indeed in the London Science museum. Also there a Thimonnier and other pioneer machines. For me just love my work, the number of products will be more. Sunday, April 27, So you think you can sew, Mr Saint? For a start, apart from the fact that he was a cabinet maker, little is known about him.

How did the first sewing machine work

In articles on the web I come across a number of portraits allegedly of him, but clearly Victorian and almost certainly of Barthelemy Thimonnier a later French inventor. Then there is the fact that there is no evidence that he ever made a sewing machine as opposed to designing it. So nobody knew what the man had invented, and no-one tried making it work.

The first working model was made nearly a century after the patent was taken out and needed a few amendments to the patented design before it could be made to operate. At its heart the machine incorporated many of the characteristics of a modern machine: it had a horizontal cloth plate or table, an overhanging arm carrying a straight needle, and a continuous supply of thread from a spool.

A rotating hand crank on a shaft activated cams that produced all the machine's actions.