Cautionary Tales · January 9, 2026 · 38m

Liar, Bigamist, Brute: How Isaac Singer Liberated Women

Tim Harford (solo)

The sewing machine was once thought to be an impossible invention. It was such a complicated contraption that it would take more than one inventor, with more than one good idea, to make it work.

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