Sewing machines, threads, button boxes and fabric swathes have always held a nostalgia for me. At my late Granny Margaret’s home in the 1980s, boxes of buttons, beads and threads were something I ...

Prominent among these are the Electric Telegraph, the Reaper and Mower, and the Sewing-Machine. What the telegraph ... Every day extends their use into remoter parts of the country and of the ...

Along with the truckloads of parts and specialized equipment have also come stacks and stacks of schematics for all these machines, some bearing hand-drawn corrections penned by long-retired ...