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Isaac Singer
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American businessman; inventor of the Singer sewing machine (1811-1875)
OverviewAI-generated
Isaac Singer was a writer who lived from October 27, 1811, to July 23, 1875. He had 24 children. Open Library lists an author named Sendak Isaac Singer with one work, while Crossref attributes five works to the name Isaac Singer. MusicBrainz classifies the artist type as Other and lists the country as XW.
Singer is associated with several quotes, including “We must believe in free will — we have no choice.” and “I am a vegetarian for health reasons—the health of the chicken.” He also stated, “Life is God's novel. Let him write it.” In another quote, he expressed gratitude for a prize and to God for each story, idea, word, and day. Last.fm records 22 listeners and 54 playcounts for the name Isaac Singer.
Synthesized by Vinony from 16 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Wikiquote, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 22
- Total plays
- 54
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Isaac+Singer">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 23,606x
- Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy
· 2013 · cited 13,535x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,685x
- Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,640x
- The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans
· 2020 · cited 9,162x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “We must believe in free will — we have no choice.”
- “I am a vegetarian for health reasons—the health of the chicken.”
- “As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.”
- “Life is God's novel. Let him write it.”
- “I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.”
- “I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions… Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1811-10-27 ) October 27, 1811, Pittstown, New York , U.S.
- Died
- July 23, 1875 (1875-07-23) (aged 63), Paignton, Devon , U.K.
- Known for
- Founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company
- Spouses
- Catherine Maria Haley ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1830 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1860 ) Isabella Eugenie Boyer ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. June 13, 1863</span>"}]]}'>1863 )
- Partner
- Mary Ann Sponsler (1836–1861)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Isaac Merritt Singer (October 27, 1811 – July 23, 1875) was an American inventor, actor, and businessman. He made important improvements in the design of the sewing machine and was the founder of what became one of the first American multi-national businesses, the Singer Sewing Machine Company.
Many others, including Walter Hunt and Elias Howe, had patented sewing machines before Singer, but his success was based on the practicality of his machine, the ease with which it could be adapted to home use and its availability on an installments payment basis.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Isaac Singer” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.