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Invention: The Sewing Machine
Written by Lucy Williams
Narrated by Amy Jones and Jason Hill
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This book is about the invention of the sewing machine. Since the sewing machine has been considered by some as one of the most important inventions of 19th-century America, of equal importance to this story of the invention is the history of the sewing machine's development into a practical, popular commodity.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I never thought singer was a surname. I just thought I'd the name of the machine. Woow