She came up with a method of automation so that workers would not have to make the bags by hand. Then she fought for credit for her work. Knight, Margaret E, Paper Bags, Inventions and Patents, Innovation, Women and Girls, Labor and Jobs, Biographical Information She came up with a method of automation so that workers would not have to make the bags by hand. Then she fought for credit for her work. NYT > Business
Overlooked No More: Margaret E. Knight, Innovator of the Flat-Bottomed Paper Bag
