BRITISH PATENT

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GB 10.134/1844                Leonard  Bostwick

Machinery for sewing all kinds of cloth or other materials

A grant unto Leonard Bostwick, of 4, Fen Court, Fenchurch Street, in the city of London, merchant, for his invention of certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for sewing all kinds of cloth or other materials; 6 months.

April 2, 1844

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The first machine adapted in UK to the sewing of two pieces of cloth together, without the aid of hand labour. 

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