Elias Howe, American sewing machine pioneer mb-code 42-16054464 George Frampton's statue of the

George Frampton's statue of the boy who never grew up from JM Barrie's novel

Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster was not a Fellow of the Royal Society

perched on the trunk of 'Quercus sempervivens foliis oblongis non sinuatis'

Plate 46 figures 2-3 from the paper 'On the placenta'

and quack doctors

Elias Howe, American sewing machine pioneer mb-code 42-16054464 George Frampton's statue of theElias Howe, American sewing machine pioneer, (c1924). Howe (1819 1867) did not invent the sewing machine (that was Charles Fredrick Weisenthal) but, on September 10 1846, was awarded the first United States patent for a lock stitch sewing machine.