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Margaret E. Knight was born in York, Maine on February 14, 1838, to Hannah Teal and James Knight. [4] As a little girl, “Mattie,” as her parents and friends nicknamed her, preferred to play with woodworking tools instead of dolls, stating that “the only things [she] wanted were a jack knife, a gimlet, and pieces of wood.” [5] She was known as a child for her kites and sleds.
Margaret E. Knight patented a machine in 1871 for the manufacture of flat-bottomed paper bags. [3] In 1892 the company relocated from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to Hudson Falls, New York, where it had a paper mill. The Union Camp Corporation was formed by the 1956 merger of the Union Bag and Paper Company with Camp Manufacturing. [2]
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.
Margaret Knight is the name of: Margaret E. Knight (1838–1914), American inventor; Margaret K. Knight (1903–1983), British psychologist and humanist; Margaret Rose Knight (1918–2006), First Lady of North Carolina
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The magazine served as a marketing tool for Butterick patterns [4] and discussed fashion and fabrics, including advice for home sewists. [5] By 1876, E. Butterick & Co. had become a worldwide enterprise selling patterns as far away as Paris, London, Vienna and Berlin, with 100 branch offices and 1,000 agencies throughout the United States and ...
The patterns were offered one size to a package until the 1980s, when slower sales made "multisized" patterns (which had several different sizes in the same package) more cost effective. At first, the pieces were not marked and no pattern layout was provided, leaving it up to the sewer to decide which piece was the collar, which the sleeve, etc.
A bag is a non-rigid or semi-rigid container usually made of paper which is used to hold items or packages. In 1868, Margaret E. Knight while living in Springfield, Massachusetts invented a machine that folded and glued paper to form the brown paper bags familiar to what shoppers know and use today. [178] 1868 Tape measure