Singer Corporation

**Singer Corporation** adalah syarikat pembuat mesin jahit Amerika Syarikat yang pertama ditubuhkan sebagai **I. M. Singer & Co.** pada 1851 oleh Isaac Merritt Singer dengan peguam asal New York, Edward Clark. Paling terkenal dengan mesin jahitnya, ia dinamakan semula sebagai **Singer Manufacturing Company** pada tahun 1865, kemudian **The Singer Company** pada tahun 1963. Ia beribu pejabat di La Vergne berhampiran Nashville, Tennessee. Kilang besar pertama untuk pengeluaran besar-besaran telah dibina di Elizabeth, New Jersey, pada tahun 1863.

## Presiden
* Isaac Singer (1851–1863)
* Inslee Hopper (1863–1875)
* Edward S. Clark (1875–1882)
* George Ross McKenzie (1882–1889)
* Frederick Gilbert Bourne (1889–1905)
* Sir Douglas Alexander (1905–1949)
* Milton C. Lightner (1949–1958)
* Donald P. Kircher (1958–1975)
* Joseph Bernard Flavin (1975–1987)
* Paul Bilzerian (1987–1989)
* James H. Ting (1989–1997)
* Stephen H. Goodman (1998–2004)

## Empat mesin jahit terlaris

File:Singer12k.jpg|Singer 12K fiddle-bed tahun 1878.
File:Singer66.JPG|Singer 66 tahun 1922.
File:Singer99b.jpg|Singer 99 tahun 1939.
File:singer222k.jpg|Singer 222k tahun 1954.
Antara mesin jahit yang popular yang ada di pasaran adalah;
# Mesin jahit tepi
# Mesin jahit mini
# Mesin jahit sulam

## Galeri

File:Old Singer sewing machine in Kuala Nerus.jpg|Mesin jahit lama jenama Singer


## Rujukan

## Bacaan lanjut
* Brandon, Ruth. *A capitalist romance: Singer and the sewing machine* (Lippincott, 1977).
* Coffin, Judith G. "Credit, consumption, and images of women's desires: selling the sewing machine in late nineteenth-century France." *French Historical Studies* (1994): 749-783. in JSTOR
* Davies, Robert Bruce. *Peacefully working to conquer the world: Singer sewing machines in foreign markets, 1854-1920* (Arno Press, 1976).
* Godley, Andrew. "The Global Diffusion of the Sewing Machine, 1850-1914." *Research in Economic history* 20#1 (2001): 1-46.
* Godley, Andrew. "Selling the Sewing Machine Around the World: Singer's International Marketing Strategies, 1850—1920," *Enterprise & Society* (2006) 7#2 pp.&nbsp;266–314 in JSTOR
* Godley, Andrew. "Singer in Britain: the diffusion of sewing machine technology and its impact on the clothing industry in the United Kingdom, 1860–1905." *Textile history* 27.1 (1996): 59-76.
* Jack, Andrew B. "The channels of distribution for an innovation: The sewing-machine industry in America, 1860-1865." *Explorations in Economic History* 9.3 (1957): 113.
* Weber, Nicholas Fox. *The Clarks of Cooperstown: Their Singer Sewing Machine Fortune, Their Great and Influential Art Collections, Their Forty-year Feud* (Alfred A. Knopf, 2007).
* Wickramasinghe, Nira. "Following the Singer Sewing Machine: Fashioning a Market in a British Crown Colony" in *Metallic Modern: Everyday Machines in Colonial Sri Lanka.* (Berghahn Books, 2014) pp.&nbsp;16–40. in JSTOR

## Pautan luar

* Singer Corporation 
* Singer Corporation Worldwide Official website
* Singer Memories: company story 
* Singer Direct Singer history timeline
* Singer in WWII Singer's contribution to the war effort
* Singer sewing machine serial numbers and dates
* Toyota Sewing Machines Japan Official website
* Toyota Sewing Machines Europe Official website

* *[http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/Trade-Literature/Sewing-Machines Sewing Machines, Historical Trade Literature]*  Smithsonian Institution Libraries
* Singer Sewing company South Africa Singer Sewing Company South Africa
* website singer swing original
* Singer Sewing company colombia kakaktogel
* Singer Manufacturing company records  at Newberry Library
* Singer Sewing Machines E-Tailer Website
* Singer Company records  (1851–1990) at Hagley Museum and Library
* Singer Manufacturing Company Records  (1860–1878) at Hagley Museum and Library