Jan Ernst Matzeliger and the Shoe Making Machine By Franchesca L.
His family, home, and day of birth Jan Ernst Matzeliger was born on September 15, 1852 in Paramaribo, Dutch Guyana. He was the son of a Surinamese homemaker and a Dutch engineer.
Early life Jan Ernst Matzeliger had no education. When he was 10 years old he was apprenticed to go work in the machine shops that his father owned. That is when he started to show an interest in mechanics. At the age of 19 he moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to become a sailor. Then he moved to Lynn, Massachusetts because all of the machine shops were there.
The Shoe Making Machine Jan Ernst Matzeliger worked at Harney Brothers Shoes factory for five years before he got the idea of making the shoe making machine. The shoe making machine could make 700 shoes in a day while regular people at the time could only make 50 shoes in a day.
Why it is important and how it changed our lives. It is important because it quickly attaches shoes to the soles. It also only took one machine instead of a group of people. It has changed our lives by making 700 shoes in a day.
Getting Famous After making the shoe making machine Jan Ernst Matzeliger got his own stamps. He also had six patents. The automatic method for the lasting shoe,the nailing machine, the tack separating and distributing mechanism, the lasting machine, the mechanism for distributing tacks and nails, and the second advanced lasting machine.
His death Jan Ernst Matzeliger died on August 24,1889 because of tuberculosis. He died at the age of 36. He also didn't live long enough to see the progress of the shoe making machine.
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