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What African-American inventor received 5 patents in the field of shoemaking?
Answer: B
It was Jan Ernst Matzeliger.
Born in Surinam and working in Lynn, Massachusetts, he patented a lasting machine in 1883 that shaped the upper of a shoe over the last and attached it to the sole. Skilled hand lasters had managed fifty pairs a day; his machine did seven hundred.
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