In 1851 Isaac Singer brought onto the market the first practical sewing machine in history.
Why? Because with it, anyone could pop down their local market on Saturday and wear a new dress to church on Sunday Cheap material from the Northern Powerhouses, and the sewing machine, meant that beau.
By the 1870\'s the humble sewing machine had become the most wanted item on the planet.
The result was explosive.
He had combined all the ideas that had gone before to make a machine that actually worked.
In 1851 Isaac Singer brought onto the market the first practical sewing machine in history