Margaret E. Knight
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Margaret Eloise Knight (February 14, 1838 - October 12, 1914 [1]) was an American inventor, especially a flat-bottom paper bag. She is known as "the most famous female inventor of the 19th century." [2]
Margaret Knight was born on February 14, 1838 in James Knight and Hannatia, Yorkshire, Maine. After her father died young, Knight 's family moved to Manchester, New Hampshire. She received basic education, but she left school with her brothers and sisters to work at the cotton factory. At the age of 12, Knight caused an accident at the factory, and the worker was stabbed with a steel shuttle shot from a mechanical loom. Within a few weeks she invented a safety device for the loom that was later adopted at other Manchester factories. Although this device has not been patented so far and its exact nature is unknown, there is a possibility that it is a device that stops the loom when the shuttle wire is disconnected, or a device that physically shuts off the shuttle is there. [3] Health problems The Cavaliers have been working at cotton factories and have been doing a few jobs, such as home repair, photography, sculpture, from the early teens to the early twenties. [3]
Knight moved to Springfield, Massachusetts in 1867 and was hired by a Columbia paper bag. In 1868, Knight invented a machine to fold and bond paper and made a flat brown paper bag familiar to today's shoppers. Knight made a wooden model of equipment, but a practical iron model was necessary to apply for a patent. Charles Annan, who is building a mechanical studio of Knight Iron model, steals her design and got a patent for that device. Knight raised a patent interference lawsuit in 1871 and acquired a patent. [4] In Massachusetts, a business partner, Knight established an Oriental paper bag company and received a usage fee.
Many of her other inventions are related to the cover dismantling tongs patented in 1894, numbering machines, window frames and window frames, and some related to the rotary engine that was patented between 1902 and 1915 Includes equipment. [Five]
At Curry's Cottage at 287 Hollis Street in Framingham, she recognized "the first female patented in the US" and received 87 patents in the United States. But in fact the knight is not the first person. MaryKies and Hannah Slater are getting this honor. [6] [7] [8] [9]
In 2006 the knight entered the National Inventors Hall of Fame. The original bag making machine was in the Smithsonian museum in Washington DC.
McCulley, Emily Arnold. Marvelous Mati: The way Margaret E. Knight became an inventor. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.32 pp. ISBN 0-374-34810-3. (The children's book was awarded "One of the best feminist books in 2007" by Amelia Bulmer Project of the Feminist Expert Group of the American Library Association).
DiMeo, Nate. No The Memory Palace podcast episode 7, November 5, 2015. (In podcast, Margaret Knight's early life and invention are explained in detail.)
Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie: Women in Science: Ancient Literature of the 19th Century: Bibliographies with Annotated Bibliographies. Third Edition MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 1991, ISBN 0-262-65038 - X, p. 110 f
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Margaret Knight was born on February 14, 1838 in Yorkshire Maine and was born at James and Hannah (Till) Knight. Mr. Knight and her brothers Charlie and Jim wer