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Definition of Elias Howe
1. Noun. United States inventor who built early sewing machines and won suits for patent infringement against other manufacturers (including Isaac M. Singer) (1819-1867).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elias Howe
Literary usage of Elias Howe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Martha Joanna Lamb, Henry Phelps Johnston, Nathan Gilbert Pond, William Abbatt (1884)
"He escaped the severe poverty of Elias Howe, and yet knew something of the warfare
that seems to follow the birth of new inventions. ..."
2. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1867)
"The terms of this partnership were these : George Fisher was to receive into his
house Elias Howe and his family, board them while Elias was making the ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Trade-marks and Analogous Subjects: (firm-names by William Henry Browne (1885)
"The facts sufficiently appear in the following extract from the opinion of
Sutherland, J. That Elias Howe, Jr., in 1846, obtained a patent for a certain ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1867)
"1843 Corliss patented one; in 184C Elias Howe, Jr., patented one — the third
patent in America, ... That Elias Howe did not know how to build a sewing-mat ..."
5. Kings of Fortune: Or, The Triumphs & Achievements of Noble, Self-made Men by Walter Raleigh Houghton (1888)
"Elias Howe, JR. NE of the busiest parts of the busy thoroughfare of ... Elias Howe,
its maker, was born in the town of Spencer, Massachusetts, in 1819. ..."
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