Jan E. Matzeliger (In History) - September 15, 1852 - August 24, 1889
Jan E. Matzeliger, born in Dutch Guiana served as a sailor for two years before ending his journey in Lynn, Massachusetts. There, Jan Matzeliger invented the Automatic Shore Last Machine (1883), a complex manufacturing device that revolutionized the shoe making industry. His patent was bought by the United Shoe Machinery Company in Boston, which became a multimillion dollar corporation, due to Matzeliger's invention. Matzeliger, however, died of tuberculosis in 1889 before the success of the business. Matzeliger's mechanical genius was not limited to this breakthrough. He patented a number of other shoe manufacturing items, inspired in part by his apprenticeship beginning at the age of 10 in a machine shop in his native Dutch Guiana (now Suriname).
Links referencing Jan Matzeliger:
http://library.thinkquest.org/10320/Matzelgr.htm
http://www.famu.edu/about/admin/vppa/News/Black_History_Moments
/Duke_Ellington/Henry_O._Tanner/Whitney_Moore_Young_/jan_e._matzeliger.html
http://faculty.washington.edu/qtaylor/aa_Vignettes/matzeliger_jan.htm
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