Technology and Engineering Atlas

How Things Are Built
Sign In
Text size
100%
Theme
Engineer

Elias Howe

Textile Engineering

Elias Howe Jr. was an American inventor best known for his creation of the modern lockstitch sewing machine. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Birth Year
1819 1
Connections

In Field

Source Elias Howe (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases
Sources
1. Elias Howe (Wikipedia)
  • Wikipedia 'Elias Howe': infobox birth_date, checked 2026-09-27
  • In Field: Mechanical Engineering, Categories
    19th-century American mechanical engineers
View the Source
Comments (0)
No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.
Reader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.