Margaret E. Knight
inventions
family
childhood
legacy
"new names"
quotes
awards
"The most famous 19th-century woman inventor"
nicknamed "Lady Edison"
"I sighed sometimes, because I was not like the other girls; but wisely concluded that I couldn't help it, and sought further consolation from my tools."
"Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination."
2006 induced into the national inventors hall of fame
$ 50,000
A medal from Queen Victoria
27 patents
around 90 inventions
reel and patented it 1894
compound rotary engine patented 1902
Charlie, Jim, Eliza
James Knight, Hannah Teal
name
middle name
simple education, left to work at a cotton mill
age 12 first real invention
feb.14, 1838 York, Maine
made toys for sibs
manchester, NH, after father died
called "tomboy"
sold sleds for .25 cents
father died when M. was 12
later life
At the paper bag company, M. and the other women were paid a third less than men doing the same jobs because the owners thought a woman couldn't take care of the machines
moved to springfield, MA in 1867
died of pnemonia
job as an inventor
villan
she paid $100 a day for lawyer
charles annan stole her idea of bag machine
witnesses for court
C.A. spied in shop
age 32 when made paper bag machine
known for inventing flat-bottomed paper bag machine
internal combustion engine patented in 1913
oct.12, 1914
age 76
framingham, MA
M's boss
iron model maker
roommate
original at smithsonian
"I couldn't see the sense of coddling bits of porcelain with senseless faces."
patent witnesses
John Wheelock
U. C. Bradley
Saml. C. Moore
Geo C. Lambrighty
her brothers called her "Mattie"
Eloise
attorney is Chas F. Stansbury
paper bag machine
the paper bag starts with a tube
patent info
she showed her personal diary in court
patent #116,842
drawings in patent
12 figures in patent
patented July 11, 1871