Sewing machines, threads, button boxes and fabric swathes have always held a nostalgia for me. At my late Granny Margaret’s home in the 1980s, boxes of buttons, beads and threads were something I ...

The latest episode “Made in the USA” podcast explores a company that uses collaborative robots, one of the key tools helping US machine shops and other manufacturers compete with lower cost countries ...

This drives the needle in the top part of the sewing machine and controls other working parts, such as the bobbin and feed dogs – the teeth under the presser foot that automatically feed material ...

After all, from the invention of the cotton gin to the washing machine, we’re used to an ... surprised over the last several years how many parts of science, at least in part, can have big ...

Prominent among these are the Electric Telegraph, the Reaper and Mower, and the Sewing-Machine. What the telegraph ... and have income indispensable to the dressmaker, tailor, ...