Singer Corporation is an American manufacturer of consumer sewing machines, first established as I. M. Singer & Co. in 1851 by Isaac M. Singer with New York lawyer Edward C. Clark. Best known for its sewing machines, it was renamed Singer Manufacturing Company in 1865, then the Singer Company in 1963. It is based in La Vergne, Tennessee, near Nashville. Its first large factory for mass production was built in 1863 in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
A Singer treadle sewing machine
A Singer 1851 sewing machine
Singer's patent model for his sewing machine
Workers leaving Singer sewing machine factory on Clydebank
A sewing machine is a machine used to sew fabric and materials together with thread. Sewing machines were invented during the first Industrial Revolution to decrease the amount of manual sewing work performed in clothing companies. Since the invention of the first sewing machine, generally considered to have been the work of Englishman Thomas Saint in 1790, the sewing machine has greatly improved the efficiency and productivity of the clothing industry.
Diagram of a modern sewing machine
Newton Wilson's copy of Saint's sewing machine
An 1880 hand-cranked machine from the Wheeler and Wilson Company
Sewing Machine from the Everyday Collection of the Museu da Capitania de Ilhéus
