By 1863, the Singer Manufacturing Company held 22 patents and sold 20,000 sewing machines yearly. Within eight years, the yearly sales reached 180,000 sewing machines, which included their New ...

The Game Boy Color was, of course, a handheld gaming console, but it also served a niche function: it was the brain of select sewing machines in the 1990s.

These commercial sewing machines were built in Orson C. Phelps’s machine shop in Boston. The head, base cams, and gear wheels of the machine were made of cast iron; to fit together, these parts had to ...

Starting as early as 1949, the company undertook three experiments to create a baseball stitching machine: EX#16002, EX#16116, and EX#16279. These three projects document experimental work in the ...

Fraser has also bought a commercial sewing machine. The plan is for the couple to start repairing canvas tents, tarps and teepees. But that's in three years, ...

Unleash your inner Betsy Ross with these smarter sewing and embroidery machines, even if you can’t tell a bobbin from a backstitch. ... This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only.

The pleasant hum of a sewing machine fills a busy work space in Johnston Square, just off the corner of Greenmount Avenue and Preston Street. It’s an industrial sound that once reverberated a… ...

A new robot by Sewbo could automate the feeding of fabric into sewing machines. Zornow has created a process by which a robotic arm guides chemically stiffened pieces of fabric through a commercial ...

TORRINGTON >> On a day filled with sunshine and good cheer, the employees of Commercial Sewing celebrated the company’s 50th anniversary. The company family gathered at the factory Wednesday ...