Margaret Knight: Loom shuttle safety guard at 12 (unpatented); flat-bottom paper-bag machine as an adult
Loom shuttle safety guard at 12 (unpatented); flat-bottom paper-bag machine as an adult.
Loom shuttle safety guard at 12 (unpatented); flat-bottom paper-bag machine as an adult. The teen-era invention was never patented; the famous patent came at 30
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IP note
US 116,842 (1871) after winning a patent interference against a copier; at least 27 patents in her lifetime.
Recognition
National Inventors Hall of Fame 2006.
What this means for a student inventor in India
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- Rifath Sharook — KalamSat
- Angad Daryani — Shark
- Taylor Wilson — Nuclear fusor built at 14; later radiation detectors
Sources
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