Shoe manufacturing was revolutionized by the lasting machine, which was patented on March 20, 1883 by inventor Jan Earnst Matzeliger. Matzeliger was born in 1852 in Paramaribo, Suriname, to a Dutch ...

The expiration, August 14, of two of what have heretofore been considered the "controlling " patents of the McKay Sewing ...

Have you ever had a custom-made shoe? If you lived in a previous century you likely would have. Prior to 1859, when American engineer Lyman Blake invented a sole-sewing machine, shoe-making was ...

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