5- إلياس هاو مخترع ماكنة الخياطة..

- مجهول الطفولة من حيث علاقته مع الموت ..
- لكنه عاش طفولة صعبة وكان معتل الصحة في معظم الوقت ومات على اثر ذلك وهو صغير لما يتجاوز السابعة والاربعين...
- وحتى ان افكاره عن اختراع ماكنة الخياطة يقال انها جاءته في السرير وهو ينتظر الشفاء من المرض.
- ويلاحظ انه غادر المنزل في سن السادسة عشر للعمل بعد ان احس والده انه غير قادر على القيام باعمال الحقل الذي بدا يعمل فيه لمساعدته والده في سن السادسة.
- ولا شك انه عاش حياة ازمة ايضا.
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Elias Howe, Jr. (/haʊ/; July 9, 1819 – October 3, 1867) was an American inventor and sewing machine pioneer.

Howe was born on July 9, 1819 to Dr. Elias Howe, Sr. and Polly (Bemis) Howe in Spencer, Massachusetts. Howe spent his childhood and early adult years in Massachusetts where he apprenticed in a textile factory in Lowell beginning in 1835. After mill closings due to the Panic of 1837, he moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts to work as a mechanic with carding machinery, apprenticing along with his cousin Nathaniel P. Banks. Beginning in 1838, he apprenticed in the shop of Ari Davis, a master mechanic in Cambridge who specialized in the manufacture and repair of chronometers and other precision instruments.[1] It was in the employ of Davis that Howe seized upon the idea of the sewing machine.

He married Elizabeth Jennings Ames, daughter of Simon Ames and Jane B. Ames on 3 Mar 1841 in Cambridge.[2] They had three children: Jane Robinson Howe, Simon Ames Howe, and Julia Maria Howe.

Read on and find out about our amazing young farmer who suffered from a weak constitution and was plagued by ill health. Ill health that finally stole him just as he was about to enjoy his rewards.

Elias Howe's story is a brief but turbulent one. It was one that touched the birth of the first proper sewing machine industry. Elias Howe knew all the pioneers in his field and most of the great names in the sewing business from Isaac Singer to Grover & Baker.

The humble sewing machine sparked the greatest manufacturing expansion in history and led to employment of millions.

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By the time Elias Howe Junior was six, yes six years old, he was working most days on his dad's farm. Also other work was brought in. One of Elias Howe juniors jobs was making cards for the cotton mills in the area. This amounted to placing wire teeth into lengths of leather to strip back the bales of cotton before thread making. Also for the napping of cloth, wool and felt. The cotton cards were then sent back to the cotton mills for use in their industry. It was early piece work.

Elias went to school in the quiet months, usually winter. By the age of 11 Elias went to work on a neighbouring farm but, homesick and unwell, he soon returned to the familiarity of home where he worked until he was 16. It became clear to Elias's father that his son was weaker than normal and as much as he wanted he could not do a hard days work on the farm without being exhausted.

Elias's dad always worried about his frail son and would take special care to help him any way he could. It was this help, later in life, which proved to be the lottery winner for his family. One day the poor sickly lad would become one of the richest men in the land.

It was while recuperating in bed that his first sewing machine thoughts were to take physical form. He would get up and scribble down his ideas. As soon as he was fit enough, and had the time, he would make the parts that he had thought of for his new invention. Sometimes it would work sometimes not.

He often joked to his dear wife I wish I could just lie here in bed for the rest of time. A wish that would sadly come true many years before it should.