Rotary International downtown Chicago, United States, at Harris's friend Gustave Loehr's office in the Unity Building on Dearborn Street on February 23, 1905. In addition to Harris and Loehr (a mining engineer and freemason), Silvester Schiele (a coal merchant), and Hiram E. Shorey (a tailor) were the other two who attended this first meeting. The members chose the name Rotary because initially they rotated subsequent weekly club meetings to each other's offices, although within a year, the Chicago club became so large it became necessary to adopt the now-common practice of a regular meeting place. The next four Rotary Clubs were organized
Rotary hook year, selling it for USD35 (USD891 adjusted). The next year patent , was awarded. The rotary hook design was then called the "Wheeler & Wilson principle" after Wilson's partnership with Wheeler. Just two years later, in 1853, Scientific American took notice: Later, once the patents had expired, the White Sewing Machine Company used it in the popular 'White Family Rotary' machine. Rotary hook The rotary hook (aka rotating hook) is a bobbin driver design used in lockstitch sewing machines of the 19th and 20th century and beyond. It triumphed over competing designs because it can run at higher speeds with