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Marvelous Mattie : how Margaret E. Knight became an inventor

Author

McCully, Emily Arnold.

Title

Marvelous Mattie : how Margaret E. Knight became an inventor / Emily Arnold McCully.

Format

Book

Edition

1st ed.

Published

New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2006.

Description

1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

URL

<Contributor biographical information> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0640/2004056415-b.html <Publisher description> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0640/2004056415-d.html

Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Summary

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 still use today. Meet the woman known as "the Lady Edison."

Awards

A Junior Library Guild selection.

Subject headings

Knight, Margaret E., 1838-1914--Juvenile literature. Inventors--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.

ISBN

0374348103 (hardcover) : 9780374348106 (hardcover)