The expiration, August 14, of two of what have heretofore been considered the "controlling " patents of the McKay Sewing ...
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 ...
The Pedoscope was an X-ray machine, marketed as a surefire method of ensuring well-fitting shoes and healthy feet Credit: Photo: Rex/Alamy It was in a shoe shop in Norwich that I had a sudden memory ...