22 Facts About Singer Corporation

Singer Corporation obtained in August 1851 for an improved sewing machine that included a circular feed wheel, thread controller, and power transmitted by gear wheels and shafting.

Singer Corporation 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 Corporation produced its first "vibrating shuttle" sewing machine, an improvement over contemporary transverse shuttle designs.

The Singer Corporation company began to market its machines internationally in 1855 and won first prize at the Paris world's fair that year.

Singer Corporation demonstrated the first workable electric sewing machine at the Philadelphia electric exhibition in 1889 and began mass-producing domestic electric machines in 1910.

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Singer Corporation was a marketing innovator and a pioneer in promoting the use of installment payment plans.

In 1867, the Singer Corporation Company decided that the demand for their sewing machines in the United Kingdom was sufficiently high to open a local factory in Glasgow on John Street.

The Clydebank factory was so productive that in 1905, the US Singer Corporation Company set up and registered the Singer Corporation Manufacturing Company Ltd.

Singer Corporation was the world leader and sold more machines than all the other makers added together.

At the height of its productiveness in the mid 1960s, Singer Corporation employed over 16,000 workers but by the end of that decade, compulsory redundancies were taking place and 10 years later the workforce was down to 5,000.

Singer Corporation's marketing emphasized the role of women and their relationship to the home, evoking ideals of virtue, modesty, and diligence.

Singer Corporation offered credit purchases and rent-to-own arrangements, allowing people to rent a machine with the rental payments applied to the eventual purchase of the machine, and sold globally through the use of direct-sales door-to-door canvassers to demonstrate and sell the machines.

In December 1940, Singer Corporation won a contract to produce the M5 Antiaircraft Director, a version of the UK-designed Kerrison Predictor.

The US Army had previously adopted the M7 Computing Sight for their 37 mm gun M1 anti-aircraft guns, but the gun proved temperamental and Sperry Singer Corporation was too busy producing other systems to build the required number of M7's.

In 1968, Singer Corporation bought out GPS Systems and added it to the Link Simulations Systems Division.

In 1987, corporate raider Paul Bilzerian made a "greenmail" run at Singer Corporation, and ended up owning the company when no "White Knight" rescuer appeared.

Several years in the 1970s, Singer Corporation set up a national sales force for CAT phototypesetting machines made by another Massachusetts company, Graphic Systems Inc This division was purchased by Wang Laboratories in 1978.

In 1978 Singer Corporation moved its HQ from Rockefeller Plaza to Stamford, Conn.

In 1986, the original Singer Corporation company spun off its sewing machine business under the name SSMC.

In 1900, the Singer Corporation company retained Ernest Flagg to build a 12-story loft building at Broadway and Prince Street in Lower Manhattan.

At their Clydebank factory, Singer Corporation built a 200 feet clock tower, which stood over the central wing and had the reputation of being the largest four-faced clock in the world.

Singer Corporation had manufactured sewing machines in Australia at a purpose-built plant in the western Sydney suburb of Penrith, from 1959 until 1967.