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In 1857, the first practical chain-stitch sewing machine was patented by a farmer, James E. A. Gibbs of Mill Point. In the same year, he formed the Willcox & Gibbs Sewing Machine Co. with James Willcox, who arranged for its manufacture. In 1896, the first radio patent was issued to Guglielmo Marconi in England for his wireless telegraphy apparatus for "Improvements in Transmitting Electrical Impulses and Signals, and in Apparatus Therefor."