Matzeliger, Jan Ernst

Matzeliger, Jan Ernst

▪ Dutch inventor
born Sept. 15, 1852, Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana [now Suriname]
died Aug. 24, 1889, Lynn, Mass., U.S.
 inventor best known for his shoe-lasting machine that mechanically shaped the upper portions of shoes.

 Son of a Dutch father and a black Surinamese mother, Matzeliger began work as a sailor on a merchant ship at the age of 19 and after about six years settled in Lynn, where he found employment in a shoe factory and became interested in the possibilities of lasting shoes by machine. Working alone and at night for six months, he produced a model in wood and on March 20, 1883, received a patent (see photograph—>). His invention won swift acceptance and within two years had largely supplanted hand methods in Lynn. Matzeliger received several other patents for shoe-manufacturing machinery, including an improved model of his first lasting machine.
 

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