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Paul Alling Sperry (December 4, 1895 – November 7, 1982) was an American inventor, businessman, photographer, screen printer, sailor and outdoorsman. He designed the first boat shoe and founded Sperry (formerly Sperry Top-Sider), a sportswear company now headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.
The earliest known shoes are sagebrush bark sandals dating from approximately 7000 or 8000 BC, found in the Fort Rock Cave in the US state of Oregon in 1938. [5] The world's oldest leather shoe, made from a single piece of cowhide laced with a leather cord along seams at the front and back, was found in the Areni-1 cave complex in Armenia in 2008 and is believed to date to 3500 BC.
The next morning, his wife said, "The little men have made us wealthy. We must show them our thanks. They are running around with nothing on, freezing." She proposed to make clothes, and the shoemaker agreed to make a pair of shoes for each of them. The two of them did not stop until they had finished the work, then hid themselves again.
Noel Streatfeild, 1936. Mary Noel Streatfeild OBE / ˈ n oʊ ə l ˈ s t r ɛ t f iː l d / (24 December 1895 – 11 September 1986) was an English author, best known for children's books including the "Shoes" books, which were not a series (though some books made references to others).
Jan Ernst Matzeliger (September 15, 1852 – August 24, 1889) was a Surinamese-American inventor whose automated lasting machine brought significant change to the manufacturing of shoes. The United Shoe Machinery Corporation company was founded to make his shoe making devices.
A shoe repair shop is a type of business establishment that fixes and remodels shoes and boots. Besides a shoe repair shop, a shoe repairer could work in department stores or shoe stores. Men's shoes on display in a shopping outlet. Sewing machine for shoemaking, shoe repair, and bag and heavy fabric repair work.
During his studies, while working in a shoe store in the evenings, he became interested in podiatry. [1] In 1904 [2] he invented and patented an arch support and founded the company Dr. Scholl's to sell it. [1] He was joined by his brother Frank who directed the company's overseas business, establishing Scholl Manufacturing Company, Ltd. in ...
The talk of London at the time was of the Australian gold strikes, so Lobb booked the first available passage to Sydney, New South Wales.True to the maxim that those who supply gold miners make more money than the miners themselves, as the only shoemaker amongst the prospectors, Lobb prospered making sturdy boots with secret compartments for gold particles in the hollow heels [2] and with his ...