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Josef Madersperger
Josef Madersperger (October 6, in Kufstein – October 2, in Vienna) was a tailor.
Josef madersperger biography
He is one of the inventors of the sewing machine.
Biography
Madersperger was born in in Kufstein, western Austria. In , he relocated to Vienna with his father because his parents' house in Tirol burned down.
In , he began development of the sewing machine, spending all his savings and leisure time on it. In , he presented his first sewing machine, which imitated a human hand. Madersperger did not commercialize the granted privilege which expired after three years.
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By , he was registered as a "former" middle-class tailor.
In , after several unsuccessful attempts to improve the sewing machine, he built a machine that imitated the weaving process using the chain stitch. Madersperger was out of money, so he could not set up a factory.
He donated the prototype to the Imperial–royal Polytechnical Institute (the predecessor of the TU Wien). In , he received a bronze medal f