Veritasium had this video about the history of sewing machines recently [1].

I remember watching it and ended up in awe of how something that we take for granted took a journey of several thousand years to be get invented.

While I'm thinking about it, his recent video about the development of blue LEDs [2] is very interesting as well if you haven't seen it.

[1] https://youtu.be/RQYuyHNLPTQ [2] https://youtu.be/AF8d72mA41M