Margaret E. Knight

He has shown tools and inventions since he was a child, but at the age of 12 he is said to have designed a safety device to control the shuttle of a power textile loom. In 1868, who lived in Springfield, Massachusetts, she invented an accessory for a paper bag folding machine that can make a square bottom bag. After improving her invention in Boston, she got a patent in 1870. She later obtained patents for Skirt and Skirt Shield (1883), Robe Button (1884), Spitting (1885). After that she used six patents for many years in shoe manufacturing process.

Other inventions of Knight include numbering machines, window frames, window frames, both of which were patented in 1894 and some devices related to rotary engines were patented from 1902 to 1915 I will. She is not the first patented woman, but one of them. The inventor of the most productive women with 27 patents. But she could not get too much profit from her job. When Knight died, she was called "Edison woman" in the local hut.

Apart from myths and folklore, Gage gets inspiration from real life examples of women's creativity and practical achievement. She is an 18th century astronomer, Maria Agnesi, a paper bag innovator Margaret E. Knight, a sculptor and pioneer of stone remedies Harriet Phosmer, and Lincoln consultant Anna Ella Carroll . Gauges emphasize the tendency of men to be honored by female genius, sometimes by simple proximity. This is the result of general prejudice, to support the husband's society due to patent ownership problems and to exclude women from the board of directors and factories that may prosper innovation.

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 were brought up by her widow 's mother in Manchester, New Hampshire. Mr. Knight has always been interested in making things and inventions, attracting attention to machinery at the textile factory. Prior to her teens her first invention was used in the factory. Mr. Knight moved to Springfield, Massachusetts and worked for a Columbia paper bag company after the Civil War. Here she invented a machine for folding and gluing paper to form the bottom of a bag or flat bottom bag. She studied the machine at the factory during the day and made drawings and models at her accommodation in the evening. The bagging machine of Margaret Knight got a patent with patent number 116, 842 on July 11, 1871.

After the civil war, Margaret Knight went to work at a paper bag factory in Massachusetts. While working at the factory, Knight thought it would be much easier to wrap it in paper bags (not at the time) if the bottom was flat. This idea affected the machines created by Margaret and turned her into an inventor of a famous woman. The machine of Knight automatically folds and sticks to the bottom of the paper bag - it produces a flat bottom paper bag still used in most grocery stores