Singer Futura sewing machine, part sectioned for display, with detached control panel for public operation, complete with standard accessories, foot control and instruction book, by VEB Nahmaschinenwerk Wittenberge, Wittenberge, Germany, 1976, and original cardboard box containing three pre-formed polystyrene packing pieces, by Container Corporation of America, Shelby, Shelby, North Carolina, United States, 1976

Singer Futura sewing machine, part sectioned for display, with detached control panel for public operation, complete with standard accessories, instruction book and foot control, 1976. A microprocessor controlled sewing machine, its selling price on launch date of 8th October 1976 was £375. Advertised as "the first sewing machine with an electronic brain", the machine's memory stores 25 different stitch patterns and two button hole sewing programmes.