World development
Elias Howe
After the Industrial Revolution in the mid-18th century, the large-scale production of the textile industry promoted the invention and development of sewing machines. It is recorded that the Germans registered a sewing machine patent in England in 1755, but there is a lack of textual research.
In 1790, Thomas Sainty, a British carpenter, first invented the world's first single-thread chain stitch hand sewing machine for making holes, then threading, and sewing leather shoes.
In 1841, French tailor B. Thimonnier (Barthelemy Thimonnier) invented and manufactured a chain stitch sewing machine with hooks and needles.
In 1845, Elias Howe (also translated as Elias Howe) also independently invented the sewing machine.
In 1851, American mechanical worker I.M. Singer (also translated as Lichak Merritt Singer) invented the lock stitch sewing machine and established the Singer Company. It was the first company in the United States to start producing sewing machines. The sewing machines in this period were basically hand-cranked.
In 1859, Singer invented the pedal sewing machine. After Thomas Edison invented the electric motor, Singer invented the electric motor-driven sewing machine in 1889. Since then, a new era in the sewing machine industry has been created.
In 1940, the Swiss Elna Company invented a portable household sewing machine with a cylindrical bottom plate aluminum alloy casting casing and a built-in electric motor. After 1950, household multifunctional sewing machines were further developed.
At that time, the output of the sewing machine was second only to the clock.
In 1870, there were 69 companies producing sewing machines in the United States. In 1871, the annual output of sewing machines in the United States was 700,000 units. By 1891, Singer had produced 10 million sewing machines. It can be said that for a relatively long period of time, Singer basically monopolized the production of sewing machines in the world.
After the Second World War, the sewing machine industry in former West Germany, Italy and Japan developed rapidly. Except for companies that still produce high-end traditional household sewing machines in European countries, most enterprises began to produce industrial sewing machines. During this period, Japanese sewing machine companies began to produce cheap sewing machines with the support of the government, and sold them to the United States and around the world.
In the early 1970s, the household sewing machine market in industrially advanced countries had become saturated, and enterprises had to turn to the production of industrial sewing machines under the condition of rising labor costs. South Korea especially seized the opportunity of Taiwan, China, making its sewing machine industry Rise, produce medium and low-end sewing machines and put them into the international market.
