Barthelemy thimonnier biography of william shakespeare

French inventor of an early sewing machine

Barthélemy Thimonnier (19 August in L'Arbresle, Rhône - 5 July in Amplepuis) was a French inventor, who is attributed with the invention of the first sewing machine that replicated sewing by hand.

He was born in L'Arbresle, in Rhône in France.^[4]

Early life

In , his family moved to Amplepuis.

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Thimonnier was the eldest of seven children. He studied for a while in Lyon, before going to work as a tailor in Panissières. Barthelemy Thimonnier married an embroideress in January In , he settled in a suburb of Saint-Étienne and worked as a tailor there.^[4]

Invention of the sewing machine

Though the first sewing machine needle was patented by Charles Fredrick Wiesenthal in , in Thimonnier reinvented the sewing machine.

In he signed a contract with Auguste Ferrand, a mining engineer, who made the requisite drawings and submitted a patent application. The patent for his machine was issued to