Brother International Corporation was first established in the US and offered both industrial and home sewing machines along with home knitting machines. 1971 Brother co-developed high-speed dot matrix printers with Centronics Data Computer Corp, becoming a early provider of desktop printing. Brother la...
I saw the sewing machines running, adjustments being made, baskets and boxes in motion, children and food passing through. Men, husbands, deliveries, mail and more children and food. It was all very happy. The way people are happy. The workers in this small corner had work that was local...
but the poor economy in the 1870s forced them out of business. Irvin and his younger brother, Clarence, then decided to form their own company out of the remains of the first. Irvin reportedly
The industrial sewing machine made a range of products possible and affordable. The home and portable sewing machines also introduced amateur seamstresses to the delights of sewing as a craft. History The pioneers in the development of the sewing machine were hard at work at the end of the ...
Kennedy appointed his younger brother, Robert, as U.S. attorney general. “Bobby” was just thirty-five, and, although a graduate of Virginia Law School, had little legal experience. Although the appointment was a bold act of nepotism, it aroused little controversy, and only one senator ...
Aug Birth of Willgodt T. Odhner in St. Petersburg, Russia, creator of the first mass-marketed European calculating machine >>> using the Pinwheel mechanism [10-Aug] 1851 Isaac Merritt Singer forms I.M. Singer & Company, manufacturing sewing machines Daikichi Tanaka, apprentice of Hisashige...
His son Isaac Singer, born in 1811, ran away from home at the age of twelve. He was always an experimenter and turned his hand in later life to sewing machines. While others had patented sewing machines before him, his sewing machine – which he brought to the market in 1851 – achieve...
Another English speaking country, the USA, continued the English language dominance of new technology and innovation with inventions like electricity, the telegraph, the telephone, the phonograph, the sewing machine, the computer, etc. The industrial and scientific advances of the Industrial Revolution ...
One year later, joined by his brother, J. L. “Bud” Walton, now Senior Vice President, the two brothers began to expand their variety store operations. Between 1945 and 1962, they assembled a group of fifteen successful Ben Franklin stores, which served as the base for what was to becom...
Husqvarna begun making shotguns and hunting rifles. They also started manufacturing stoves, sewing machines and bicycles. In 1903 Husqvarna made their first motorcycle. Husqvarna continued firearms production, though mostly civilian firearms except during the two world wars and some shorter periods of ...