The Path to Mechanized Shoe Production in the United States

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In 1800, shoes in the United States were made by craftsmen, each trained to create an entire shoe. A century later, shoes were mass-produced in factories employing dozens of machines and specialized workers. Ross Tomson describes this transition from craft to mechanised production in one of the largest American industries of the nineteenth century. In researching this transformation Thomson compared patent information with directories for more than eighty American cities, to establish who the inventors were, who employed them, and how many patents they held.