In 1889, Singer manufactured the first electrical sewing machine. Within six years, nearly 14 million machines were manufactured and sold. (By 1925, a whopping 98 percent of farming families and ...

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Phelps approved of Singer’s ideas and Isaac worked on perfecting his machine. For his first patent model, Isaac Singer submitted a commercial sewing machine. He was granted Patent No. 8,294, on August ...

Firefighters battled the four-alarm fire at a large industrial building in the historic Singer Sewing Machine factory in the 100 block of Trumbull Street in Elizabeth.

Singer sewing machine A Singer Model 20 “Sewhandy” sewing machine. Courtesy of the collector Q: This miniature Singer sewing machine was my grandmother’s.

The huge fire that struck the historic Singer Sewing Machine factory in Elizabeth on Friday has destroyed three buildings and damaged two others, and was expected to continue burning into the ...

Sewing machines, threads, button boxes and fabric swathes have always held a nostalgia for me. At my late Granny Margaret’s home in the 1980s, boxes of buttons, beads and threads were something ...

For this special issue, Martha Stewart considers the Singer sewing machine, an invention that brought automated sewing to the masses. She fondly remembers using one as a girl.

A four-alarm fire broke out at an industrial park in Elizabeth, New Jersey, which was once the site of the first Singer Sewing Machine factory in the U.S.