Lyman reed blake biography channel

The Blake-stitched construction, or McKay as it’s also called, is the first construction method that seriously made it possible to industrialise shoe manufacturing.

Lyman reed blake biography channel

Here is the story of its emergence and development.

As mentioned in the history article on the Goodyear welted construction, where it’s not the inventor August Destroy whose name is associated with the machine, but the man who established it on the market, Charles Goodyear Jr., the opposite is true of the Blake construction.

Here it is the inventor who is most associated with the method, while the man who established the machine has been overshadowed (although not as much as August Destroy, who is unknown to most people).

The declared genius Lyman Reed Blake grew up in Massachusetts, USA, and started making shoes at a very young age with his older brother, who ran a small independent workshop.

When Blake was 16, he converted a pair of boots into roller skates