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Shoes used to be a luxury — then Jan Ernst Matzeliger changed that. 👞🔧
Born in 1852 in Suriname, Jan immigrated to the U.S. and worked in a Massachusetts shoe factory.
There, he saw a bottleneck: it took hours to attach a shoe sole by hand.

So he invented the shoe-lasting machine — a device that could join the sole and upper in minutes.
What once took 10 workers now took 1.
Factories went from making a few pairs a day to hundreds.
Shoes became affordable.
Working-class people finally walked with comfort.

But Jan faced racism, isolation, and died young — never fully seeing the change he sparked.
Still, his invention revolutionized the shoe industry, and his legacy is stitched into every step we take.

He didn’t just build a machine.
He built access, dignity, and progress with each pair of soles made for the people.

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