Howe

(noun.) United States inventor who built early sewing machines and won suits for patent infringement against other manufacturers (including Isaac M. Singer) (1819-1867).

(noun.) United States feminist who was active in the women's suffrage movement (1819-1910).

(noun.) Canadian hockey player who holds the record for playing the most games (born 1928).

(noun.) United States editor (1920-1993).

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• Howe won his suit, and the infringers were obliged to pay him royalties, which, for a time, amounted to $25 on each machine. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• His machine was shown at the Paris Exposition of 1867, and was awarded a gold medal, and Howe himself was given the ribbon of the French Legion of Honor. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• By some means his brother sold one of his machines to Mr. William Thomas, a corset maker of London, and Howe was induced to go there to make stays, and his machines. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• He showed it to a man named William Thomas, who became interested in it, offered $1,250 for it, and also offered to employ Elias Howe in his business of umbrella and corset maker. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Howe had the patience to wait, and in one way and another obtained the sinews of war to sue the infringers of his patents. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• But, although Thomas had taken a very lively interest in Howe’s sewing-machine, he did not treat the inventor well. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Almost everyone is familiar with the modern Howe sewing machine, and it will be therefore more interesting to present the form in which it originally appeared. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The industry was not successful, however, till 1836, when the Howe Manufacturing Company was formed at Birmingham, Conn. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Dr. John Neland Howe, a physician of Bellevue Hospital, New York City, formed a company in 1832 for the manufacture of pins. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• His family at home sent Howe a little money before his earnings were entirely spent, and he used this to buy passage for his wife and children back to the United States. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• This concern was not successful, but in 1835 a second company was formed by Dr. Howe, who had great faith in the future of the industry. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Howe sewed the seams of two woolen suits with it, one for himself, and one for Fisher, and it was declared that the mechanical sewing was so well done that it promised to outlast the cloth. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The opposition to the completed machine seemed insuperable, and Fisher, believing it to be so, at length withdrew from his partnership with Howe. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• This arrangement proved Howe’s salvation, and in December, 1844, he moved into his new friend’s house. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The panic of 1837 closed the mills, and Howe found his course deflected to work in a machine-shop in Cambridge. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.

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