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The article was ok. The site http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blknight.htm had much more information. For school, I had to write about her and this is what I have so far.

Margaret Knight (1838-1914)

Born in York, Maine and the well known American Inventor, Margaret Knight made many differences in which the world is run today. Since she was a little girl, Margaret Knight invented many things. She had invented the Paper Bag Company (1870), a dress and skirt shield (1883), a clasp for robes (1884), spit (1885), a numbering machine (1894), a window frame and sash (1894), a rotary engine (1902), and when she was twelve she had an idea that stopped machines preventing workers from being injured. Her most famous invention was the paper bag.

In the beginning, when she first thought of changing the envelope like paper bags, workmen mistakenly thought "what does a woman know about machines?" She did invent a new machine part that folded and glued paper bags so the bottoms were square. She proved them wrong and paper bags where made. They had square bottoms as planned, and they are still used today.

Margaret Knight became known as "the female Edison," “queen of paper bags,” and the “mother of the grocery bag.” On a plaque in Framingham, they notice Margaret Knight as "first woman awarded at U.S. patent" and holder of eighty seven U.S. patents.