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Margaret Knight was an American inventor born in 1838. As a child, she witnessed a worker get injured by a shuttle being fired from a loom, which inspired her first invention - a safety device for looms. Later, while working at a paper bag factory, she saw a need for a machine to automate the production of square-bottomed bags. She went on to invent the first successful machine for folding and gluing square-bottomed paper bags. Though she sold her patents and did not become wealthy, her inventions made a si

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