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Easy as Sunday Morning: Popular Patents!

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Quiz | Easy as Sunday morning: Popular patents

Professor Eric Laithwaite at the Royal Society of Arts in London.

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1/10 | On June 2, 1857, James Gibbs of Virginia received a patent for his invention. The original machine was invented by Elias Howe, but it was cumbersome and slow. Gibbs patented his technique called the ‘chain stitch’, which was based on the craft of using looped stitches. This made the machine much easier to create designs. What was this machine that changed the livelihood of millions of women?

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