Singer+Sewing+Machine

   The Singer Sewing Machine * Isaac Singer was born Pittstown, New York, on October 27, 1811.  Isaac worked in his older brother's machine shop before getting married and learned the machinist’s trade there; in Otsego in the village of Fly Creek.  Isaac again was working in a machine shop, this time owned by George Pomeroy.   * In 1839 Singer obtained his first patent  , for a machine to drill rock, selling it for $2,000. Hoping to market his wood-block cutting machine there, he obtained an advance to build a working prototype, and constructed one in the shop of A. B. Taylor & Co. However, not long after the machine was built, the steam boiler blew up at the shop, destroying the prototype.  * Singer went to Boston in 1850 to set up his wood cutting machine at the Phelps' machine shop. Orders for the woodcutting machine were not very high. Lerow and Blodgett companies were working on sewing machines, but they weren’t working. Phelps, the man that singer was working for, asked Singer to help them with their inventions. He later figured out that the machine would be more efficient if it had a straight needle rather than a curved one. He was then noted for his achievements of his own sewing machine with a straight needle that was more effective than the former ones produced.    * Sewing Machine Design

Singer did not invent the sewing machine, and never claimed to have done so. By 1850, when Singer saw his first sewing machine, it had been "invented" four times. All sewing machines before Walter Hunt's  produced a Chain stitch  , which had the disadvantage of easily unraveling. Hunt's machine produced a lock stitch , as did all subsequent machines including Lerow and Blodgett's, which Singer in turn improved in Phelps's shop. Elias Howe  independently developed a sewing machine and obtained a patent on September 10, 1846. War broke out between Howe and Singer, with each claiming patent primacy. Singer set out to discover that Howe's improvements had been reinventions of existing technology, and found one of Hunt's old machines, which indeed created a lock-stitch with a shuttle. Hunt applied in 1853 for a patent, claiming priority to Howe's patent, issued some seven years earlier. A lawsuit, Hunt v. Howe , came to trial in 1854, and was resolved in Howe's favor. Howe then brought suit to stop Singer from selling Singer machines, and protracted litigation ensued.

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