March 7, 2026, Patent of the Day

On March 7, 1865, U.S. Patent No. 10609 issued to Charles Miller

Miller’s sewing machine which, was able to automatically make buttonholes, whip stitches, and herringbone stitches, was an improvement of his earlier patented machine (U.S. Patent No. 9139), the model of which survives in the National Museum of American History: