Singer sewing machine introduced
1851 · Event
Practical, mass-produced sewing machine that reached middle-class homes.
On these timelines: Industrial Revolution, Master
More from Industrial Revolution
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Watt's separate-condenser steam engine patent (1769)
- Spinning jenny invented (1764)
- Arkwright's water frame (1769)
- First passenger railway opens (1825)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
- Newcomen atmospheric steam engine (1712)
- Factory Act 1833 (1833)
Around 1851
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Commodore Perry opens Japan (1853)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- British Raj (1858)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) begins (1859)