By 1890 it had 80% of the worldwide market share. By 1913 over 3 million sewing machines had been sold worldwide. In 1978 Singer created the first computer controlled sewing machine in the world.

It was clear that hand-tabulation of the 1890 census would take until well past the year 1900. A resolution to this problem was presented by Herman Hollerith. He developed a machine that could ...