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The Singer Sewing machine is over 150 years old. Isaac Merritt Singer was born in New York and invented a sewing machine that innovated on the design of an earlier machine invented by Orson C. Phelps of Boston. This was in 1950.
In 1851 Singer started a company called I.M. Singer and Co. with a lawyer partner called Edward C. Clark.
Within a few years the Singer name was hitting the sewing machine market hard within the USA.
In 1853 the company is renamed Singer Manufacturing Company. By 1855 Isaac Singer was expanding his markets globally. Singer won the reputation of being the first global company.
By 1870 Isaac Singer had innovated on the original product and the international market was returning better revenues than the American market. Clark had worked out the legal details to make sewing machines affordable to every home maker. A Singer sewing machine could be purchased on a payment plan and the company had changed name again to Singer Manufacturing Company and held the rights to 22 patents.
In 1875 Isaac M. Singer dies in Torquay, England. He is only 63 years of age.
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