Binding: Hardcover
Description: With her sketchbook labeled My Inventions and her father's toolbox Mattie could make almost anything toys sleds and a foot warmer. When she was just twelve years old Mattie designed a metal guard to prevent shuttles from shooting off textile looms and injuring workers. As an adult Mattie invented the machine that makes the square - bottom paper bags we still use today. However in court a man claimed the invention was his stating that she "could not possibly understand the mechanical complexities." Marvelous Mattie proved him wrong and over the course of her life earned the title of "the Lady Edison." With charming pen - and - ink and watercolor illustrations this introduction to one of the most prolific female inventors will leave readers inspired. Marvelous Mattie is a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Title: Marvelous Mattie How Margaret E. Knight Became An Inventor
Author(s): Mccully Emily Arnold
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux (Byr)
Barcode: 9780374348106
Pages: 32 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/21/2006
Category: People & Places (Children's / Teenage)