and soon only industrial sewing machines were being made at the plant. In 1982, the last 560 workers at the Elizabeth site were laid off, the factory closed and the site was later converted into ...

Freed from legal distractions, the sewing machine market took off - and Singer came to dominate it. That might have surprised anyone who had seen how his factories compared with those of his rivals.

The arrival of complex machines and the development of power sources like water wheels and steam engines, led to the growth of factories and industry Before the Industrial Revolution, most of the ...