The most basic method of sewing involves doing it by hand, with a single needle and thread. ... The various parts of a sewing machine. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

A little more than a year after the first sewing-machine patent was granted, Mr. BEAN, of New-York, obtained a patent for using the common sewing-needle with machinery.

Today, where the concept of “disruption” has become so popular in business, those developing apps and new startups can look to the Singer Sewing Machine as one of the original disruptive ...