Over the next 33 years as an industrial designer with Sears, Harrison designed myriad household products like power tools, sewing machines, steam irons, the see-through measuring cup, televisions ...

So let’s take a tour, shall we? You’ve probably seen a sewing machine before, but there are a few obvious differences with an industrial machine. The biggest one is lubrication. Whereas the ...

designed 8 to 12 Sears sewing machines ever year for 12 years. Joeffrey Trimmingham / Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum In 1966, Charles "Chuck" Harrison, an industrial designer at Sears ...

After deciding to pursue industrial design because he ... During his time at Sears, Harrison redesigned the electric sewing machine into the product we know today. In fact, he designed 8 to ...

His father Charles Harrison Sr taught industrial arts at Southern University ... He worked on everything from toys to sewing machines to power tools. His use of materials was particularly innovative.

Prominent among these are the Electric Telegraph, the Reaper and Mower, and the Sewing-Machine. What the telegraph is to the commercial world, the reaper to the agricultural, the sewing-machine is ...