NOUN
- United States inventor who built early sewing machines and won suits for patent infringement against other manufacturers (including Isaac M. Singer) (1819-1867)
How To Use Elias Howe In A Sentence
- If Matt can repeat himself, so can I. Sewing-machine heiress Anne Labouisse Farnsworth Peretz is not descended from Isaac Merritt Singer himself, but from Singer’s intellectual-property lawyer and partner Clark, who beat down Elias Howe’s claim to the seewing machine patent. Matthew Yglesias » Peretz Versus Walt
