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ingenious inventions by women the windshield wiper and the paper bag machine Mary Anderson and Margaret and I are two inventors you have probably never heard of however there in genius have made our lives both safer and simpler read on to learn more about how and why each of these brilliant women develop devices that we still rely on so much today Mary Anderson where does the eye the air for a great invention come from well in the case of Mary Anderson it was developed purely from the desire to make people's lives safer it was the year 1902 when Mary Anderson travel far from her home in Alabama boarded and New York City streetcar the snow and sleet pelted the car mercilessly the driver struggled to see the road in front of him through the Frog Kate glass it was because Mary felt sorry the driver and realize that the potential danger and her fellow passengers that she was inspired to create a device that would make people's lives better that invention was the windshield wiper at the time the best option available was a split windshield during bad weather drivers would swing open their front window in the hopes that debris would slide off to the clear their view however this Saint did not work very well so merry thought why not create a device to remove the snow and ice completely immediately she began to draw up plans in her notebook Mary's finals get became we refer to today as the windshield wipers or as she described in her patent application and Improvement and Window Cleaning devices and which are rapidly swinging arm actuated by a handle from inside of a car best wheel which is just another way of saying that would be a lever inside the car that made an arm move across the glass of the windshield and fortunately many actor did not see the value of her idea and she allowed the patent to expire several years later someone else saw Mary's idea that person patent and sold the invention windshield wipers two car companies are in wide today we all we can all be grateful to Mary Anderson for this ingenious invention because it helps us see where we're going even in the most inclement weather Margaret E Knight whereas Mary Anderson goal was to make people's lives safer another inventor Margaret E Knight set out people's lives easier in the mid-1800s Margaret Knight works at the Columbia Paper Bag Company her job was to tie together stacks of homemade flat Autumn bags flat bottom bags took a long time to make so they cost more than people could afford at the time most people could only afford large wooden crates or poorly crafted in saved bags to transport their Bridge from the grocery store to their homes so when Margaret had been on the job only a week she wondered why can't I at Bottom by Ice-T made with a machine so that they could take best time to put together in less money and cost less money and everyone could afford them similar to Mary Margaret and white the Mary Margaret question let her to create a device that would improve people's lives Margaret was neither a scientist nor an engineer however because she had worked with machines most of her life she understood how they words and how to build them she began schedule ideas for a new paper bag machine that would fold Square bottom bags her next step was constructing and testing the various parts of her machine within the year Margaret had built a complete working model of her invention once her wood model is complete she hired a machine is to build one out of iron he submitted an application for a patent along with the newest version of her paper feeding machine in 1868 unlike Mary's idea the value of Margaret's machine was recognized almost immediately when a man named Charles and lemon and onion sauce Margaret paper bag machine being cast in Iron at The Machinist shop he tried to steal the idea and I copied Margaret's invention and tried to file a patent he claimed the invention at 4 P claimed he invented it first Margaret fault Charles and ins claim she traveled to Washington DC to fight him in court after days the presenting evidence Margaret received for being the first person to develop the paper folding device she was awarded the patent for invention in 1870 Margaret spent her life developing new and useful invention eventually she held the right to 27 patents in fact reporters refer to her as lady Edison because of her many discoveries nevertheless it was her first invention of the paper bag machine that continues to make our lives simpler even in today's modern world

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