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Jan Ernst Matzeliger (September 15, 1852 – August 24, 1889) was a Surinamese-American inventor whose automated lasting machine brought significant change to ...
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Apr 3, 2014 ˇ Jan Matzeliger was an inventor of Surinamese and Dutch descent best known for patenting the shoe lasting machine, which made footwear more affordable.
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Jan Ernst Matzeliger

American inventor
Jan Ernst Matzeliger was a Surinamese-American inventor whose automated lasting machine brought significant change to the manufacturing of shoes. The United Shoe Machinery Corporation company was founded to make his shoe making devices. Wikipedia
Born: September 15, 1852, Paramaribo, Suriname
Died: August 24, 1889 (age 36 years), Lynn, MA
Jan Ernst Matzeliger was an inventor best known for his shoe-lasting machine that mechanically shaped the upper portions of shoes. Son of a Dutch father and ...
Jan Ernst Matzeliger was born in 1852 in Paramaribo, Surinam (Dutch Guiana) to a Dutch engineer father and a native black Surinamese mother.
Jan Matzeliger revolutionized the shoe making industry when he patented the "shoe lasting" machine in 1883.
Feb 17, 2023 ˇ Jan Ernst Matzeliger, a Black man in the 1800's, invented a machine that changed and modernized the footwear industry.
Aug 1, 2024 ˇ In 1873, at the age of 21, Jan Ernst Matzeliger immigrated to America, having left all that was familiar behind in South America.
Mar 17, 2023 ˇ Jan Matzeliger studied the process and the movements of the hands of the “lasters.” He invented a machine that would revolutionize the process.
Feb 22, 2021 ˇ Jan Ernst Matzeliger revolutionized the shoe industry by inventing the automatic shoe-lasting machine, a device that mechanically produced 3D wooden molds ...