The sewing machine was once thought to be an impossible invention.

In 1850, it was said that the person who built a better sewing machine could make a fortune. Isaac M. Singer made a fortune by creating a product so successful that his name is still identified with ...

Author Martha Stewart writes in our 101 Objects Special Issue: Isaac Merritt Singer's sewing machine was a vast improvement upon earlier versions, capable of 900 stitches a minute -at a time when the ...

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Q. Enclosed is a photo of a Singer treadle sewing machine with cabinet that belonged to my grandmother. It is their model 66 and was manufactured Aug. 25, 1920. She spent many hours sewing for herself ...

The inquiry "Who invented the sewing machine?" has kept a lot of people talking for many, many years by many different people in many different sewing communities, and rightfully so. The sewing ...

Women's lives were transformed by the sewing machines Isaac Singer built - though he himself had no interest in driving social change. Show more Women's lives were transformed by sewing machines, ...

David Rogers, former Vice President of Singer Company, will speak to the Summit Old Guard at its Tuesday, July 18th Meeting. He will talk about the "History of the Singer Manufacturing Company." Wow!

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IF your parents didn’t use one, theirs probably did. Some people may still be using them — these sewing machines sold so well their inventor built one of the first skyscrapers in New York. He called ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Isaac Merritt Singer of New York, New ...