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sewing machine

a machine used to sew fabric and materials together with thread
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sewing machine

Summary

sewing machine ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,991 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • sewing machine is credited with the discovery of Thomas Saint[2].
  • sewing machine is made of steel[3].
  • sewing machine is a type of home appliance[4].
  • sewing machine is used for machine sewing[5].
  • sewing machine's Commons category is recorded as Sewing machines[6].
  • sewing machine's time of discovery or invention is recorded as 1790[7].
  • sewing machine's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Sewing machines[8].
  • sewing machine's Commons gallery is recorded as Sewing machine[9].
  • sewing machine's facet of is recorded as sweatshop[10].
  • sewing machine's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • sewing machine's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12].
  • sewing machine's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[13].
  • sewing machine's described by source is recorded as Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • sewing machine's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[15].
  • sewing machine's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[16].
  • sewing machine's described by source is recorded as Q139257338[17].
  • sewing machine's exact match is recorded as http://wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/wn30/04179913-n[18].
  • sewing machine's exact match is recorded as http://wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/wn31/104122652-n[19].
  • sewing machine's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[20].
  • sewing machine's P14470 is recorded as Objects/Sewing_Machines[21].
  • sewing machine's P14541 is recorded as 3ipF5O[22].
  • sewing machine's P14541 is recorded as 3zF28m[23].

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Definition and Type

sewing machine is a type of home appliance[4].

Use and Application

sewing machine is used for machine sewing[5].

Why It Matters

sewing machine ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,991 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] It is known by 40 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

Related Entities

Adam Opel Brother Industries Singer Corporation

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 13d ago · Charp238 · 2026-09-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Namuwiki id → 재봉틀
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P8885]]: 재봉틀"
  2. 10w ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14470 → Objects/Sewing_Machines
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P14470]]: Objects/Sewing_Machines, Adding missing [[P:P14470|P14470]] and [[P:P9675|P9675]] qualifier based on [[P:P5247|P5247]]"
  3. 12w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 3ipF5O, 3zF28m
    Wikidata description → a machine used to sew fabric and materials together with thread
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  4. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0207819-sici-stroje
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0207819-sici-stroje, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
  5. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Facet of → sweatshop
    Described by source → Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The New Student's Reference Work +4
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 18747, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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