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Marvelous Mattie : how Margaret E. Knight became an inventor

Call Number

  • J 921 KNIG (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2006.

Physical Description

1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Summary

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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