![]() ![]() Now it is time to get a patent for her invention. ![]() It takes her two long years, but eventually Mattie succeeds, and she creates a machine that can make a flat-bottomed bag. Surely there must be a way to make such a machine, and she sets about designing one. One day Mattie starts to wonder why there isn’t machine that can make a flat-bottomed paper bag. Being a child, Mattie is not able to apply for a patent for her invention.īy the time she is thirty, Mattie she is working in a paper-bag factory and dreaming up new inventions in the evenings. Mattie comes up with a device that will prevent the shuttles from breaking free, and it is such a success that soon it is being used in all the mills. ![]() The mill room is kept humid so that the threads won’t break, but sometimes they do break and the flying shuttles often injure people. Since the death of her father, Mattie has been cared for by her big brothers who work at the mill, and by the time Mattie is twelve she too goes to work there, alongside many other children. ![]() She likes to build things and so she does. Typically, girls living in 1850 don’t go around building things with wood and nails, but Margaret doesn’t care. It is 1850, and Margaret Knight is buying nails so that she can build a sled for her brothers. ![]()
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