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ISAAC SINGER The Inventor of the Sewing Machine Isaac Merritt Singer was the most lurid of the 19th century sewing machine discoverers, having advanced his abilities as a performer before becoming an inventor. Isaac Merritt Singer was born in Troy, New York on October 27, 1811 to a large family of German immigrants. At the age of twelve, Singer departed from home in New York and left to Rochester to work many inexperienced jobs until he was nineteen years old. While he was in Rochester, he worked as an apprentice machinist but only for a short period of time. Singer moved around a lot from city to city and worked many jobs but, during the next ten yea