All About Inventions and Discoveries
The Romance of modern scientific and mechanical Achievements
Forfatter: Frederick A. Talbot
År: 1916
Forlag: Cassell and Company, LTD
Sted: London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne
Sider: 376
UDK: 6(09)
With a Colour Plate and numerous Black-and-White Illustrations.
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352 All About Inventions
redescend. In this instance the loops forming the
chain-stitches were made upon the upper instead of
upon the under surface of the material.
Thimmonier spent considerable time and patience
perfecting his machine, and then demonstrated it
before a few financial friends. They were so favour-
ably impressed that they forthwith advanced the
ingenious tailor the necessary sinews of war to estab-
lish and to equip a factory. This enterprise met
with such success that eleven years later eighty of
these machines were at work. But the seamstresses
and tailors did not view the new development with
favour. Like those who had fallaciously construed
Hargreaves’ spinning machine into a threat against
their livelihood and had promptly smashed the new-
fangled idea out of recognition, so did the discontented
French needle workers raid Thimmonier’s factory and
destroy the whole plant.
Thimmonier was not dismayed by this manifesta-
tion of mob violence and antagonism; it convinced
him more than ever that his invention was certain of
a great future. He built improved machines, one of
which was stated to be capable of making 200 stitches
a minute, and which was placed on view at the Great
Exhibition of 1851. But apparently it attracted
little if any attention. The inventor became bitterly
disappointed at not receiving any further encourage-
ment from his financial friends, who doubtless feared
another outburst of frenzy among the needleworkers
if they attempted to re-establish mechanical sewing
upon a commercial scale. Moreover, the French
tailor appears to have become involved in patent
litigation in the United States. This was indubitably