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Article: 75 Years is a Stitch in Time for Bernina Sewing Machines.
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- PR Newswire
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- March 15, 2007
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AURORA, Ill., March 15 /PRNewswire/ -- In 1932, several important events occurred that still affect lives today. Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. Physicists Sir John Douglas Cockcroft and Ernest Walton split the atom for the first time. Jazz composer Duke Ellington wrote "It Don't Mean a Thing, If It Ain't Got That Swing," launching the swing era of the 1930s and 1940s. And the Swiss company, Fritz Gegauf, introduced the first Bernina(R) household sewing machine, selling more than 20,000 of them in five years.
Seventy-five years ago, the main purpose of a household sewing machine was to save money on buying and repairing ...