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.

Well, it’s done. After weeks of trawling Craigslist, an hour-long phone call with an intelligent stranger about a different machine that wasn’t going suit my needs, and a two-week delay… ...

Both of my sewing machines come from my grandmothers, though neither taught me how to sew. The older one is a child-sized, antique Singer, which can no longer stitch a seam. The hand crank that ...

Not only was the sewing maching patent war the first, it also had all of the trappings of the following patent wars up through today’s smartphone war. Above, the Elias Howe machine.