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Margaret E. Knight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Margaret Ethridge Knight (February 14, 1838 – October 12, 1914) was an American inventor. She was born in York, Maine to James Knight and Hannah Teal. James Knight died when Margaret was a little gir...
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Margaret Knight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Margaret Knight is the name of: •Margaret E. Knight (1838-1914), American inventor •Margaret K. Knight (1903-1983), British psychologist and humanist
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Read a biography of Margaret Knight, whose invention of a machine to build paper bags is still used to this day. ... Born in Maine in 1838 and raised by a widowed mother, Margaret Knight showed a proclivity toward inventing from a very young age – a characteristic of many of the world's famous inventors.
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Although Knight is credited with nearly ninety inventions and twenty-two patents, her patent models were not among those collected by the Smithsonian in the early 1900s. But in 1979, when curators were seeking objects related to women inventors, Knight's model was a prize find.
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Knight's Paper Bag Folding Machine; Margaret Knight was born in Maine in 1838 and started inventing at the age of twelve. She had witnessed a mill accident where a snagged thread caused a spindle to fly off its moorings hitting and injuring a worker.
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Inventor's name: Margaret Knight ... Some Interesting Facts: Margaret Knight started inventing when she was 12. She was often called a tomboy but she said it didn't bother her. Margaret invented a stop mechanism when she was 12 for machines after she witnessed a co-worker get seriously injured by a machine when it wouldn...
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