!!!Madersperger, Josef

Madersperger, Josef, b. Kufstein (Tyrol), Oct. 6, 1768, 
d. Vienna, Oct. 2, 1850, tailor and inventor. In Vienna from 1790 
designed and built a sewing machine. After first attempts to imitate 
the "sewing hand" (Vienna Technical Museum) he built his first sewing 
machine in 1814, with the eye at the tip of the needle, which made 
possible the use of an endless thread. M. made no use of the privilege 
awarded to him in 1815, which expired after 3 years. In 1839 he gave 
his sewing machine as a present to the Polytechnical Institute and was 
awarded a bronze medal by the Lower Austria Trade Association in 1841. 
He died destitute in a Vienna alms-house. It was not until 1846 that 
the first sewing machine was successfully introduced on the market by 
the American, E. Howe.

!Literature
E. Attlmayr, Ti. Pioniere der Technik, 1968; OeBL; NDB.


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