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Jan Ernst Matzeliger: Inventor
Matzeliger was born in Paramaribo (the capital city of then Dutch Guyana, now Suriname) on 15th September His father was a wealthy and well educated Dutch engineer of German descent living in Dutch Guyana and his mother was a Black Surinamese slave of African descent.
At the age of ten, Matzeliger was apprenticed in the machine shops run by his father, where Matzeliger developed an interest in machinery and mechanics.
He had some interest in mechanics in his native country, but it was only after settling in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at 19 after working as a sailor, Matzeliger, turned his interest of machinery and mechanics into a career once he began working in a machinery shop.
By , he spoke English to an adequate level and had moved to moved to Massachusetts.
The World Changing Invention
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