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Inventors and Scientists poster (detail)

Inventors and Scientists poster (detail)

Description:

Inventors and Scientists poster (detail).

Lynn Matzeliger, a Lynn, Massachusetts cobbler, was only 30 when he invented a machine that vastly simplified shoe manufacture. When he died several years later from tuberculosis, he left his money to a church.

Contributed by John Judkyn Memorial.

Copyright: The American Museum in Britain, Bath

Object ID:74.179.6

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