Important Singer Sewing Machines . Singer sewing machines were constantly improved and updated. Since the first machines were produced in the 1850s, thousands were sold to eager c ...

HOWE's machine had but little resemblance to either of the sewing-machines made at the present time. In his, the needle worked horizontally, Instead of vertically, as it does with all machines now ...

Singer didn’t invent the first sewing machine, but the one he patented on this day, Aug. 12, in 1851, was the most practical — and the most commercially viable.

In 1845, he built his first sewing machine and soon constructed an improved model, which he carried to the Patent Office in Washington to apply for a patent. He received the fifth United States patent ...