Originally Posted by kwendt
Originally Posted by Lostn51
That is really unique that it has a friction drive motor on the machine and it has the Singer badge on it. Normally you would have the belt driven motors on the machine since the handwheel has the provisions for it. Makes me think this was a "Dealer installed item".
Singer were first using electric motors on their machines in 1898. Billy
Billy.... is there a source document about the first electric motors/Singers etc? I'd like to print it out of my FIL who's a retired technician/engineer who didn't believe me when I said that sewing machines were first electrifed prior to 1900... I don't know enough about it, to be able to give facts... so of course, I couldn't back up my statement...
I found it somewhere on the Smithsonian website. Let me go look and see what I can find.
Billy