Working againMany years later in 1874 a man named William Newton Wilson found the patent of Thomas’s machine. The original drawings were so complete he was able to rebuild it, and with slight amendments to the looper, he rebuilt Saints sewing machine, proving it did work. His replica is now exhibited in the Science Museum.Modern Features Thomas Saint Sewing MachineSaint’s device had many features of today's sewing machines. It had an overhead arm to take the stitching awl and a tensioning system. The awl pierced the material and a forked rod carried the thread through the hole, where it would be hooked underneath and moved to the next stitching place. The cycle would then be repeated, so locking the stitch.Links.
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Mar 16, 2010 British inventor Thomas Saint was the first to patent a design for a sewing machine. However, he never actually built this machine. More recently, sewing machine enthusiasts have built the machine outlined in the patent and were forced to make significant changes in order to get it to work.