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ON Mar. 8, M. Herriott, the former premier of France, unveiled a monument at Lyons to Barth©lemy Thimonnier, the inventor of the sewing machine. Thimonnier applied for his first patent in collaboration with Auguste Ferrand, of the School of Mines, St. Étienne, on April 12, 1830, and the erection of the monument was the outcome of the celebration last year of the centenary of that event. The commemoration which took place in Paris in May last included meetings in the Conservatoire national des Arts et Métiers, the Sorbonne, and elsewhere, a record of which is contained in the February Bulletin de la Société d'Encouragement pour l'Industrie nationale, which also contains a biographical sketch of Thimonnier by M. Am. Matagrin, of Lyons.
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The Invention of the Sewing Machine. Nature 127, 610 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/127610a0
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