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Margaret E. Knight

1838 - 1914

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Margaret Eloise Knight (February 14, 1838 – October 12, 1914) was an American inventor, notably of a machine to produce flat-bottomed paper bags. She has been called "the most famous 19th-century woman inventor". She founded the Eastern Paper Bag Company in 1870, creating paper bags for groceries similar in form to the ones that would be used in later generations. Knight received dozens of patents in different fields and became a symbol for women's empowerment. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Margaret E. Knight is the 358th most popular inventor (up from 374th in 2019), the 8,284th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,614th in 2019) and the 92nd most popular American Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Margaret E. Knight ranks 358 out of 426. Before her are Albrecht Berblinger, Kazimierz Prószyński, John Fitch, Dan Bricklin, Per Georg Scheutz, and Jay Miner. After her are Joseph Bramah, František Křižík, Phil Ramone, Orville Gibson, Andy Bechtolsheim, and Norman Joseph Woodland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Margaret E. Knight ranks 98. Before her are Cleveland Abbe, Gustav Neumann, Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, Oswald Schmiedeberg, Marc Delafontaine, and Stefanos Skouloudis. After her are Walter Buller, General Tom Thumb, Henry Hobson Richardson, Joseph F. Smith, Octavia Hill, and John Wanamaker. Among people deceased in 1914, Margaret E. Knight ranks 123. Before her are Edward S. Holden, Daniel De Leon, Robert Hugh Benson, Karolina Kózka, Ida Freund, and Christopher Cradock. After her are Altaf Hussain Hali, Jakub Arbes, Charles Devendeville, Joshua Chamberlain, Louis Bach, and Gijsbert van Tienhoven.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Margaret E. Knight ranks 8,286 out of 20,380. Before her are Julia Morgan (1872), Rhyno (1975), George Underwood (1884), Frederick Seitz (1911), C. E. Ruthenberg (1882), and Kevin Sussman (1970). After her are Morris Kline (1908), Michael Hardt (1960), Jonathan M. Wainwright (1883), Duncan Hunter (1948), Ken Leung (1970), and Joe Sample (1939).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Margaret E. Knight ranks 92. Before her are Joseph Engelberger (1925), Edward Lawry Norton (1898), Henry M. Leland (1843), John Fitch (1743), Dan Bricklin (1951), and Jay Miner (1932). After her are Orville Gibson (1856), Norman Joseph Woodland (1921), Ken Olsen (1926), Frank J. Sprague (1857), Amar Bose (1929), and Tabitha Babbitt (1779).

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