singer demonstrated the first workable electric sewing machine in 1910.
when did singer demonstrate the first workable electric sewing machine?
1910
singer consolidated enough patents in the field to enable him to engage in mass production, and by 1860, his company was the largest manufacturer of sewing machines in the world. in 1885, singer produced its first "vibrating shuttle" sewing machine, an improvement over contemporary transverse shuttle designs (see bobbin drivers). singer began to market its machines internationally in 1855 and won first prize at the paris world's fair. the company demonstrated the first workable electric sewing machine at the philadelphia electric exhibition in 1889 and began mass-producing domestic electric machines in 1910. singer was also a marketing innovator and was a pioneer in promoting the use of installment payment plans.
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this fusion of drawing, narrative, and pattern coalesced in marks’ aesthetic, and on december 6, 2000, marks experienced a major shift in her thinking: “my drawings told me they had to be sewn.” she also realized that simple hand-sewing or hand embroidery would not suffice to attain what she was after, and that mastering the properties of a sewing machine was required. she purchased a portable sewing machine, and “began to learn to draw with it, at first simply, then with greater complexity, making contemporary drawings that were enriched and transformed by the process of their creation. from the outset, i somehow knew that this was what i was going to do for the rest of my life and that the potential was enormous. i wanted to make the sewing machine an extension of my nervous system.” marks thus broke with her earlier processes and expressed her aesthetic through fabric and the properties of sewing. though her work had previously explored realms of the fantastic, the colors, textures and imagery in fabric, and the tonal, tactile, and linear properties of stitching provided marks with an expanded repertoire of elements with which to actualize her ideas. marks calls these works ″sewn drawings.″ though she had no previous knowledge of the complexities of a sewing machine, marks’ expertise with power tools, skills she acquired as a sculptor, served as the basis to understand the mechanics of machine sewing. nevertheless, mastering the sewing machine and being able to draw with it was an intense learning process that moved from a combination of hand and machine embroidery through achieving the dexterity to draw on the machine.
china marks