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1983 BCE
He patented a shoe lasting machine that increased the availability of shoes and decreased the price of footwear.
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1889 BCE
The Consolidated Lasting Machine Company was formed to manufacture the devices, with Matzelinger receiving a large amount of stock in the organization
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1877 BCE
He moved to Lynn, ,Massachusetts, to seek work in town’s rapidly growing shoe industry.
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1873 BCE
Trained as a shoemarke
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1852 BCE
Matzeliger settled in the United States
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Matzeliger received patent number 274,207 for his machine.
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The day he died