Marvelous Mattie : how Margaret E. Knight became an inventor
by McCully, Emily Arnold.
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BookPublisher: New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2006Description: 1 v.(unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm. hardback.ISBN: 9780374348106.Subject(s): Knight, Margaret E. -- 1838-1914 | Inventors -- United States -- Biography | Inventors | UOI - Where we are in place and time - Space and structuresSummary:
Mattie Knight loved to make things ranging from a foot warmer for her mother or toys for her older brothers. Or, when she was 12, a metal guard to prevent shuttles from shooting off looms and hurting workers. Later, Mattie invented a machine that could cut and glue the square-bottomed paper bags we still use today. Meet the woman known as "the Lady Edison."
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Mattie Knight loved to make things ranging from a foot warmer for her mother or toys for her older brothers. Or, when she was 12, a metal guard to prevent shuttles from shooting off looms and hurting workers. Later, Mattie invented a machine that could cut and glue the square-bottomed paper bags we still use today. Meet the woman known as "the Lady Edison."