Career and Inventions

Davis specializes in repairing and manufacturing precision instruments like chronometers.

1838 Howe apprentices under Master Mechanic, Ari Davis, and this is where he gets his start in inventing.

It was while working with Davis when Howe began to work on the idea of a "Sewing Machine"

Many others before Howe thought of the idea of a sewing machine, but Howe was the first to apply the idea and create and patent the machine.

The first Sewing Machine was invented and Patented on September 10, 1846