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McCully, Emily Arnold.
Marvelous Mattie :
how Margaret E. Knight became an inventor /
Emily Arnold McCully.
1st ed.
New York :
Farrar, Straus, Giroux,
2006.
1 v. (unpaged) :
col. ill. ;
29 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.".
9-12.
Accelerated Reader AR
LG
4.2
0.5
105170.
20101228.
A Junior Library Guild selection.
Knight, Margaret E
1838-1914.
Knight, Margaret E
1838-1914.
Juvenile literature.
Inventors
United States
Biography.
Inventors
United States
Biography
Juvenile literature.
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