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unusual facts about sewing machine



1911 in Scotland

March–April - Eleven thousand workers at the Singer Manufacturing Co. sewing machine factory on Clydebank go on strike in solidarity with twelve female colleagues protesting against work process reorganisation.

Degtyarev plant

The plant also makes a range of civilian products: motorcycles (i.e. Voskhod), mopeds, micro-tractors, sewing machines and accumulator batteries.

E. C. Singer

C. Singer was an American engineer (and the nephew of Isaac Singer, inventor of the sewing machine) who worked on secret projects for the benefit of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War and who invented the spar torpedo.

Elias Howe Company

The founder was not the eponymous and better-known inventor of the sewing machine but a contemporary and possibly a distant relative.

Everglades Club

Singer's father, Isaac Singer (1811-1875), had invented the sewing machine and Paris Singer had an income of one million dollars a year at this time.

Orchestre Stukas

Also acclaimed guitarist Dodoly (nicknamed "the sewing machine" for his high speed solos) began his career in Stukas before his successful experience in Bozi Boziana's Anti Choc.

Patent pool

One of the first patent pools was formed in 1856, by sewing machine manufacturers Grover, Baker, Singer, and Wheeler & Wilson, all accusing the others of patent infringement.


see also

Alan Wilson

Allen B. Wilson (1824–1888), American inventor of the sewing machine shuttle

Bisnis Indonesia

Bisnis Indonesia opened its first office in an ex Singer's sewing machine service center at Jalan Kramat V/8, Central Jakarta.

Bridget Cleary

She obtained a Singer sewing machine, state of the art at the time, and was variously described as a dressmaker and a milliner.

Brother Industries

In 1968 the company moved its UK headquarters to Audenshaw, Manchester, after acquiring the Jones Sewing Machine Company, a long established British sewing machine maker.

Gordon McKay

He met Lyman Reed Blake, who had applied for, and received, a patent from the United States government for his sewing machine for helping attach the soles of shoes to the upper of the shoe.

I. M. Singer

Isaac Singer (1811–1875), inventor of the Singer sewing machine

Kansas, Oklahoma

Legend has it that a man of small stature who came to nearby Siloam Springs, Arkansas, by train from Kansas City, Kansas, rented a hack and stocked it with light household goods, pots and pans, bolts of cloth, sewing machine parts and needles, etc.

Matsumoku

Shortly after the World War II (1939-1945), the Singer Corporation established the Singer Sewing Machine Company, Japan, and set up production facilities in Nagoya.

Merrow Sewing Machine Company

2004: Charlie Merrow and Owen Merrow great grandsons of Lena Bryant (and great nephews to Joseph B. Merrow) with their father Robert Merrow, organize a buyout of the Merrow Machine Company and move its headquarters to Wareham, Massachusetts, changing its name to The Merrow Sewing Machine Company.

Rotary hook

Mr. Howe is mentioned due to the patent thicket that threatened to put the smaller sewing machine companies out of business.

Steckborn

Fritz Gegauf, inventor of the sewing machine and founder of Bernina