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Title Queen of inventions : how the sewing machine changed the world / Laurie Carlson.
Author Carlson, Laurie M., 1952-
Publication Info. Brookfield, Conn. : Millbrook Press, 2003.
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Description 32 p. : ill. ; 21 x 26 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 32).
Summary Looks at the history of sewing and how it was transformed in the 1850s when an American inventor, Isaac Singer, not only invented a practical sewing machine, but also a way for everyone to afford one.
Subject Sewing machines -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Singer, Isaac Merritt, 1811-1875 -- Juvenile literature.
Sewing machines.
Singer, Isaac Merritt, 1811-1875.
Inventions.
ISBN 0761327061 (lib. bdg.) : $22.90