What prompted Isaac Singer to invent his own sewing machine?
My daughter is working on a GT project for school. She is doing it over the Singer Sewing machine. She wants to know what made Isaac Singer want to improve the existing sewing machines of the day.
Mr Issac Singer did NOT invent the sewing machine. He’s a patent thief. The modern hole in the needle point lock stitch was invented by Elias Howe and it became the biggest patent infringement cases of the 19th century. ( Howe saw the modern machine needle with the eye in the point rather than the end in a dream, BTW)The reason Singer wanted to improve the machine make the sewing machine a necessity for every home had little to do with altruism and everything to do with money, he was a bigamist with two wives, both with several children and he had a couple mistresses and other children on the side. He needed money to support all of them. Search for these names:
Elias Howe.
Issac Singer
Walter Hunt
Here’s the wiki page on singer:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Singer
And here’s a brief intro on the whole sewing machine patent war:http://inventors.about.com/od/sstartinventions/a/sewing_machine.htm
I don’t know if that’s what your daughter has read on the singer website, but this is the unvarnished truth.
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