Margaret Knight, inventor
Feb. 14, 1838-Oct. 12, 1914
Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor by Emily Arnold McCully (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006)
Inventive as a child, Knight grew up to create the first paper bag machine. When her idea was stolen, she went to court and won. The first woman to receive a U.S. patent triumphed.
View at photo of Knight’s machine at the Smithsonian Institution.
