A little more than a year after the first sewing-machine patent was granted, Mr. BEAN, of New-York, obtained a patent for using the common sewing-needle with machinery.

The Singer sewing machine was so revolutionary that even Mahatma Gandhi, who eschewed all other machines, made an exception for it. After learning to sew on a Singer in a British jail, Gandhi ...

After the war, the plant was cranking out 10,000 sewing machines a year, and as many 40,000 workers punched a clock there. But its business declined in the 1970s and 1980s, and the facility shut ...