History of the first machine to make shoes

JAN ERNST MATZELIGER was born in Suriname, his father was an engineer and his mother a black
slave of Surinam. He showed in his home country an interest in mechanics and efforts to invent a
machine to make shoes. He began when he moved to the United States there working in a
machine shop. FOR THE NINETEENTH years he settled in the city of Philadelphia in the state of
Pennsylvania after having worked as a sailor. In eighteen hundred and eighty-three after five years
of patented work his invention His machine allowed to increase the production of shoes. At hand
an operator produced fifty shoes in a day of work but his machine produced between one hundred
and fifty and seven hundred shoes a day. Machine allowed to reduce the price of shoes in a fifty
percent in the United States

History of the first machine to make shoes

JAN ERNST MATZELIGER was born in Suriname, his father was an engineer and his mother a black
slave of Surinam. He showed in his home country an interest in mechanics and efforts to invent a
machine to make shoes. He began when he moved to the United States there working in a
machine shop. FOR THE NINETEENTH years he settled in the city of Philadelphia in the state of
Pennsylvania after having worked as a sailor. In eighteen hundred and eighty-three after five years
of patented work his invention His machine allowed to increase the production of shoes. At hand
an operator produced fifty shoes in a day of work but his machine produced between one hundred
and fifty and seven hundred shoes a day. Machine allowed to reduce the price of shoes in a fifty
percent in the United States.

JAN died prematurely of tuberculosis and never could enjoy its invention. The fifteenth of
September of nineteen hundred and ninety-one in recognition of its contribution was dedicated a
stamp to the Postal service of the United States.

Patents 1- automatic method for shoemaking.

2-nailing machine.

3-mechanism of distribution and separation of tacks and nails.

4-armed mtamp to the Postal service of the United States.