(NNPA Newswire) – The craft of shoemaking was at one time difficult and manual work. But with the advent of the Industrial Revolution, cobblers and cordwainers cut, sewed, and tacked shoes with ...

Do you know what the term "lasting" means in the shoe industry? Lasting corresponds to the operation of stretching the shoe upper over the foot form or "last". There are many ways in which these ...

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 ...

Chances are, you have Jan Ernst Matzeliger to thank, at least partially, for the shoes on your feet. Matzeliger, an immigrant from what is now the country of Suriname, in South America, revolutionized ...

DURHAM (WTVD) -- February is Black History Month and here at ABC11 we're celebrating notable African American inventors. Jan Matzeliger (1852-1889) revolutionized the shoe-making industry. Before he ...