| Elias Howe | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Gender | Male |
| Animal | Cat |
| Hair color | Brown |
| Cartoon debut | What is that Thing? |
Elias Howe (July 9, 1819 – October 3, 1867) was an American inventor. He appears in "What is that Thing?", both as a puppet and as a Bionic Bunny villain.
Howe was the inventor of the modern sewing machine. Although not the first to think of it, he made the first one with all three modern features: a needle with the eye at the point, a shuttle operating beneath the cloth to form the lock stitch, and an automatic feed.
In "What is that Thing", Mr. Ratburn does a puppet show about inventors, in which an Elias Howe puppet explains the sewing machine to another puppet.
The events of that episode inspire Buster to submit a plot to an Idea for a Bionic Bunny Story contest. It is made into a two-part Bionic Bunny episode called Bionic Bunny vs. Elias Howe. In it, Elias Howe uses a giant bobbin to hypnotize cats in order to take over the world. He fools Bionic Bunny by disguising himself as a boy.
Trivia[]
- A modified version of Elias's boy disguise model was used as Keith in the episode "In My Africa".
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