Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Margaret Knight
Standard Name: Knight, Margaret
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1848: Margaret Knight, age ten, invented a stop-motion...
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1848
Margaret Knight
, age ten, invented a stop-motion device for use in textile mills to prevent shuttles sliding out of looms and injuring workers; despite its popularity, she never patented it.
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
