Invention of the Sewing Machine
Dear friends, there is an interesting incident related to the invention of the sewing machine.
In the mid 19th century, there lived a man called Elias Howe. He was trying to work out a way to make a lock-stitch sewing machine. He worked out a general idea for making this. But he was stuck on one point as to how to thread the needle. The hole in the needle as it usually is was not suitable for machine stitching. Elias Howe was so obsessed by thoughts of making the sewing machine that he almost gave up everything else those days. Then one fine day, the flash came to him in a dream.
Howe had a dream – ‘He was captured by savages, who forced him to find a way out to solve the problem of the needle. They threatened to kill him if he did not invent the machine. These dark-skinned painted warriors surrounded him, and even led to a place of execution. As Howe looked on helplessly, shaking with fear, the warriors pointed their spheres at him. With fear, he gazed at the sparkling tips that almost rubbed on his throat and chest. Meanwhile something caught his attention, it was the eye-shaped holes on the head of the spears. The eye like holes at the head of the speheres revealed something to Howe! Yes that was the solution to his needls as well! The dream had given him a message that unlike the conventional needles, the needle for the sewing machine should have holes in the front. Howe was excited! Exasperating with excitement as well as anxiety, he suddenly woke up. His mind lingered on around the dream. He did not lose time working on the new needle. He made a model of the eye-pointed needle.
The dream indeed helped Howe to complete find the solution for the needle problem and complete his invention. He was to patent the first sewing machine of the world.
Dear friends, there are many strange revelations that happen to man through nature. Any idea that seems down into the sub conscious mind, works on subtly but more powerfully. The hidden powers of the mind are far more effective in making us realize truths than the expressed part of the mind. This is the same with all of the great thinkers. Elias Howe’s dream is a wonderful example for how a truly sincere and persistent idea can attain fruition from within oneself. - Arathi
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