7 Important Inventions by Women
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 07-03-2020
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Paper Bag, Margaret Knight
In 1868 American cotton mill worker Margaret Knight invented a machine to make paper bag with a flat square bottom. Originally they looked like envelopes. Charles Annan saw her design and tried to patent the idea but Knight filed a lawsuit and won the patent fair and square in 1871.