Elias Howe was born in 1819, in Spencer, Massachusetts. His interest since childhood was machinery and after learning the machinist’s trade, Elias began to work at a cotton machinery factory in Lowell, MA. Elias learned through advertisements and friends that a man, who would create machinery that sews faster than the fastest tailor in the world, would be a man of great wealth. Every day after work, this young man would spend every free moment he had on designing a sewing machine. In 1846, he was granted a patent for the design. After little interest in his machine in the United States, Elias Howe sold his patent rights to a factory in England for about 250 pounds. He moved to England and worked for very little money a week in order to perfect