In the bag!: Margaret Knight wraps it up (Great idea series)
Biography, Science and medicine biography, Women biography
Human-transcribed braille
Summary
Margaret Knight was different from most American girls living in 1850 – she loved to make things with wood and made the best kites and sleds in town. Her father died when she was only three, and by the time… she was twelve, she was working at the local cotton mill alongside her two older brothers. One day, she saw a worker get injured by a shuttle that had come loose from the giant loom, and the accident inspired her to invent a stop-motion device. Margaret devoted her life to inventing, and is best known for the clever, practical, paper bag. When she died in 1914, she had ninety inventions to her name and over twenty patents, astounding accomplishments for a woman of her day. Grades K-3. 2011. (Great idea series)