![]() This youth, the future Rev Francis R Goulding, was of an inventive frame of mind and between his bouts of studying produced a crude form of sewing machine which he would display with pride to anyone who would take notice. And here I turn to the Greenville Daily News of South Carolina in 1908 which tells the story of a young student studying for the church who lived in Athens, Georgia. Let's deal with the rumour and gossip first. Hard evidence will show that Howe invented nothing, that he was an ungrateful humbug who grew fabulously rich because of a silly filing error enabling him to spend the rest of his life and part of his fortune commissioning bogus biographies to perpetuate the myth. I am going to touch on rumour and gossip working on the theory that there's no smoke without fire, but I'm not going to rely on that for my case. ![]() WHAT I AM going to do here and now is to discredit Elias Howe, the man Americans call the inventor of the sewing machine. ![]() As a not-too-serious entertainment at the Convention Graham Forsdyke delivered an anti-Howe tirade and is now sitting back waiting for American members to respond.
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