Sport of Reading 03 - Purple
What's a person to do if he or she is unhappy with a job? Should he or she quit? Some people do. Others find a better way to do their work.
In the year 1870, Jan Matzeliger found himself faced with an unhappy job situation. Jan was a shoemaker. Not oly was shoe construction hard work, but the hours were long. It took many hours to finish just one pair of shoes.
Determined to change this, Matzeliger devoted the next ten years of his life to the pursuit of an easier way to make shoes. he worked on building a machine that would ease the process of shoe construction and finally completed a machine that would help to form a LAST, the shape over which a shoe is formed.
The machine was a success. It worked. However, like many an inventor, he sold the rights to the machine very cheaply. Jan Matzeliger died a poor man, although in some ways he had achieved his dream.
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