Marvelous Mattie how Margaret E. Knight became an inventor
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...
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New York :
Farrar, Straus, Giroux,
2006.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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