Making a difference（Reference for Teaching）

reference for teaching
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who invented the lasting machine?
do you know shoe manufacture today is based upon a remarkable invention developed by a young black genius in 1883?
matzeliger was born in paramaribo, dutch guiana, on september 15, 1852. his father was a dutch engineer who had been sent to the colony to take charge of the government machine shops.         
when young matzeliger was ten years old, he joined his father at the machine shops as an apprentice. at the age of nineteen he became a sailor on an east indian merchant ship. in 1876 matzeliger went to boston, massachusetts. after working there for a year, he moved to lynn, where he remained for the rest of his life. because of his knowledge of mechanics and shoemaking, matzeliger w 阅读全文