Mr. Howe is mentioned due to the patent thicket that threatened to put the smaller sewing machine companies out of business.
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It was actually invented by Allen B. Wilson in 1850, just one year before he would invent the rotary hook design that would eventually prevail over all other lockstitch bobbin driver designs.