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Sewing machines were once considered an impossible invention. It was a very complicated mechanism, and multiple inventors needed multiple inventors to make it work. Each of these inventors, including the infamous Isaac singer, wanted trust (and the good fortune that comes with it) for themselves. And then they began a war on sewing machines: backstabs, stealing, misogynistic mud.
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A recent biography of the Isaac singer is based on Alex Askaroff’s “Isaac Singer: The First Capitalist“But if you can find a copy, the definitive book about the singer is Ruth Brandons 1977 Biography “Singer and sewing machine“The contemporary account focused on Elias Howe is a 1867 article by James Parton, and is an article in a monthly magazine. The history of sewing machines. The Sewing Machine War is covered in detail in Adam Mosov’s paper The first American patent bushes rise and fallpublished in the Arizona Legal Review.
