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Helen Augusta Blanchard: Vingt-Huit Brevets pour une Meilleure Machine à Coudre

Helen Augusta Blanchard: Twenty-Eight Patents for a Better Sewing Machine

Helen Augusta Blanchard, originaire de Portland dans le Maine, déposa vingt-huit brevets entre 1873 et 1915, dont un mécanisme de point en zigzag devenu un standard de couture, améliorant les machines par un perfectionnement incrémental sans relâche plutôt que par une seule grande invention.

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incremental invention
women inventors
sewing technology
mechanical refinement
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