Orson Phelps
person
3 mentions
1 recordings
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 19 Jul
↑3 vs the 6 months before
Boston workshop owner who gave Singer his first repair job
Trend
Peak in the week of 14 Jul — 3 mentions across 1 series.
Moments
newest first · ▶ plays the momentJeremy BamberBoring History for Sleep · America’s Greatest Sewing Machine Empire 🧵🪡 | The Ri... · 21:35 · 19 Jul
…Isaac was, at this point, a 38-year-old failed actor with no formal mechanical training, three partial families, debts in multiple states, and absolutely no business being trusted with an expensive customer's machine.…
Jeremy BamberBoring History for Sleep · America’s Greatest Sewing Machine Empire 🧵🪡 | The Ri... · 21:28 · 19 Jul
…Phelps glanced at the machine, sighed in the way that only a workshop owner can sigh, and asked Isaac to take a look.…
Jeremy BamberBoring History for Sleep · America’s Greatest Sewing Machine Empire 🧵🪡 | The Ri... · 17:37 · 19 Jul
…He set up in a workshop owned by a machine repairman named Orson Phelps on the corner of Hanover Street in a building that smelled permanently of oil, hot metal and burned wood.…
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