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James Alford House

HOUSE, James Alford, inventor, born in New York city, 6 April, 1838. He was educated as an architect, but his taste was for invention, and in 1864 he became the mechanical engineer of the Wheeler and Wilson manufacturing company. The button hole machine made by this corporation was invented by him in 1862, and the button hole attachment for their family sewing machine was patented by him in 1866. He has also invented an India-rubber trunk shield and several sewing machine improvements, including an ingenious adaptation of the variable motion by means of a steel pin moving over unequal distances in equal times in a slotted disk.

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