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 
Antara mesin jahit yang popular yang ada di pasaran adalah;
 Mesin jahit tepi
 Mesin jahit mini
 Mesin jahit sulam

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. 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. 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

 Sewing Machines, Historical Trade Literature  Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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 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

Syarikat Amerika Syarikat
Syarikat yang ditubuhkan pada 1851