I own a sewing machine, an old one, but unfortunately am not very good at using it, though I would like to get better.
I'm sure if you work at it you will get better. The sewing machine was origionally invented in the Industrial Revolution. 
Can you imagine if all our clothes we wear today (with as big a wardrobe as some people have) had to be sewn by hand?
No I really can't. The Industrial revolution was the transition to new manufacturing between 1820 to 1840
Hard to believe the changes that have happened in under 200 years.
growth.
Textiles were the dominant industry of the Industrial Revolution in terms of employment, value of output and capital invested. The textile industry was also the first to use modern production methods.
The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain, and many of the technological innovations were of British origin. By the mid-18th century Britain was the world's leading commercial nation, controlling a global trading empire with colonies in North America and the Caribbean, and with political influence on the Indian subcontinent, particularly Bengal Subah, through the activities
the results, Sigurður expressed confidence that "I will get a younger and a bigger and better one soon." Visitors' most common reaction to the preserved human penis is "that it's very old, you know, a bit shrunken, and the male members ["sic"] say 'oh, I hope mine will not look like this when I get old. Sigurður has considered donating his own penis to the museum when he dies but said that it depends on his wife: "If she dies first