AI | Technology | Business on Instagram: "🧵 One turn of a wheel replaced hours of hand sewing. Before electricity ⚡, sewing machines were powered entirely by human motion using a hand crank or treadle foot pedal 🦶. Each rotation set off a precise mechanical dance ⚙️: the needle carried the top thread through the fabric 🪡 while a shuttle or bobbin below looped the lower thread around it. As the needle rose, the threads locked together into the durable lockstitch still used today 🧶. Tiny metal