
It is quite surprising that while he was working on this idea, he did not stumble upon a good method to Slipknots, but he found that building a machine to do this was a much more difficult task. After much experimenting, he proved that it was possible to make a seam by interlocking two threads in a succession of His design was for a machine that would take both its threadsįrom spools and eliminate the need to wind one thread upon a bobbin.

Machines that he had seen were not very practical, he began in 1849 to experiment with an idea based on a new kind of stitch.

Grover was another Boston tailor, who, unlike many others, was convinced that the sewing machine was going to revolutionize his chosen trade. Manufacturing a machine that was mechanically good, for this early period.

It was then that the lawyer of the Grover & Baker company, another sewing-machine manufacturer of the early 1850s, supplied the solution. By the mid-1850s the basic elements of a successful, practical sewing machine were at hand, but the continuing court litigation over rival patent rights seemed destined to ruin the economics of
