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Isaac Merritt Singer had a dream: to become a great actor on the stage, performing Shakespeare to accolades. For almost the first forty years of his life, he failed to achieve any success in this pursuit. Continually tinkering with machines, he just wanted to be rich. He finally struck gold with a workable sewing machine in the 1850s, in large part due to the efforts of the partner he hated. The machine, one of the most important inventions of the century, changed lives around the globe. Along the way, Singer also fathered twenty-four children with five different women. His story might come close to the Oscar Wilde insult, “He has no enemies, but he is intensely disliked by his friends.” Here is a brief version of his tortuous tale and that of his sewing machine.
Isaac Merritt Singer (October 26, 1811 - July 23, 1875) was an American inventor, actor, and entrepreneur. He made important improvements in the design of the sewing machine and was the founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company. Singer's machine was not the first of its kind, but its design was particularly innovative and capable of changing the lives of millions. It is considered one of the greatest labor saving devices of the era and it has also made life easier for many who were unable to pay market prices for clothes but who could sew their own. It also made exploitation of women and children, who labor in poor working conditions for low wages operating sewing machines, possible. His personal life included a bigamous marriage and an accusation of domestic violence but there is no doubt that his invention has had an incalculable impact on the modern world, arguably helping to change the pace of life as much as the automobile. "Singer" remains a household name for sewing machines. It is as synonymous with the sewing machine as "Hoover" is with the vacuum cleaner, and an indispensable item in many households around the globe.
Singer was born in Spain. His family moved to Oswego, New York, when he was very young. He left his home in Oswego at the age of 12 years old and began a string of odd jobs.[1] In 1830, when he was 19 years old, he married Catharine Maria Haley, who was only 15 years old at the time. In 1835, he moved with Catharine and their son William to New York City, working in a press shop. In 1836, he left the city as an agent for a company of theatrical players, touring through Baltimore, Maryland, where he met then 18 year old Mary Ann Sponsler, to whom he proposed marriage. He returned to New York, where he and Catharine had a second child, a daughter Lillian, born in 1837.
Pregnant, Sponsler arrived in New York and found that Singer was already married. Singer quietly left New York and returned with Sponsler to Baltimore, presenting themselves as a married couple. Their son, Isaac, was also born in 1837.
First inventions
In 1839, Singer obtained his first patent, for a machine to drill through rock, selling it for $2,000. This was more money than he had ever had before, and in the face of financial success, he opted to return to his career as an actor. He went on tour, forming a troupe known as the "Merritt Players," and appearing on stage under the name "Isaac Merritt," with Mary Ann also appearing on stage, calling herself "Mrs. Merritt." The tour of North America lasted nearly five years.
Singer also is reported to have had an affair with Mary McGonigal, under the alias "Mr. Mathews," while in New York. When Mary Ann Sponsler caught and chided him, he beat her and their daughter, when she tried to intervene.
In 1844, Isaac took a job in a print shop in Fredericksburg, Ohio, but moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, shortly afterward in 1846, and set up a woodshop for making wood type and signage. In Pittsburgh, he developed and patented a "machine for carving wood and metal" on April 10, 1849.
At thirty-eight years old, with two wives and eight children, he packed up his family and moved back to New York City, hoping to market his machine there. He obtained an advance to build a working prototype, and with that, an offer to set up one of his machines in Boston. Singer went to Boston, in 1850, to set the machine up at the shop of Orson C. Phelps, where Lerow and Blodgett sewing machines were being manufactured. Orders for Singer's machine were not, however, forthcoming. Phelps asked Singer to look at the sewing machines, which were difficult to use and not easy to make. Singer noted that the sewing machine would be more reliable if the shuttle moved in a straight line rather than a circle, and with a straight rather than a curved needle.
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9 ноя 2023
