High-Tech Sewing Machines

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Anjali Athavaley, A Stitch in Time... at the Speed of Smartphones. Wall Street Journal, May 12, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703730804576315540350755026.html

Note:
(a) Today Singer Corporation is based in City of La Vergne, Tennessee.

* At Boston, Massachusetts, Issac Merritt Singer (1811-1875) made an invention and established the forerunner of the corporation in 1851.
* History of the Sewing Machine. Museum of American History, undated.
http://www.moah.org/exhibits/virtual/sewing.html

Read paragraphs 5 and 6, and move down to see a photo of Mr Singer.
* An illustration:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewing_machine
(caption: Elias Howe's lockstitch machine, invented 1845)
* An illustration of IM Singer's 1851 sewing machine:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Singer_Sewing_Machine_1851.jpg
* lockstitch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockstitch
(see the anime)

(b) USB is short for Universal Serial Bus.
(c) Brother Industries, Ltd. ブラザー工業株式会社 is based at Nagoya, Japan.

ブラザー工業
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B6%E3%83%BC%E5%B7%A5%E6%A5%AD
(section 2 沿革:
1908年 - 安井兼吉が安井ミシン商会を創業
1925年 - 安井正義が継承し、商号を安井ミシン兄弟商会とする
1962年 - 社名をブラザー工業株式会社とする)

安井 兼吉 Kanekichi YASUI
安井ミシン商会 Yasui Sewing Machine Co
安井正義 Masayoshi YASUI
安井ミシン兄弟商会  Yasui Brothers' Sewing Machine Co  

(c) Bernina Sewing Machine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernina_Sewing_Machine
(BERNINA is the sewing machine brand of the Fritz Gegauf AG company, founded in 1893 in Steckborn, Switzerland--by Karl Friedrich Gegauf)

* Fritz is pet form of Friedrich.
* Piz Bernina
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piz_Bernina
(the highest mountain of the Eastern Alps and the highest point of the Bernina Range)
(d) VSM Group
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSM_Group
(VSM Group AB (Viking Sewing Machines), previously named Husqvarna Sewing Machines is a company based in Huskvarna, Sweden [with] the brands Husqvarna Viking and Pfaff)

Corporate
http://www.husqvarnaviking.com/us/459.htm
(e) The quattro is an Italian noun--and surname--meaning "four."
(f) sidebar: 160 Years of Machine Sewing

* treadle (n): "a swiveling or lever device pressed by the foot to drive a machine"
* The 1870 "red S girl" trademark and its 1863 predecessor can be found in
http://www.singerindia.net/history.aspx
* flapper (n): "a young woman; specifically : a young woman of the period of World War I and the following decade who showed freedom from conventions (as in conduct)"

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