For most of us the word 'inventor' makes us think of names like Alexander Graham Bell or Guglielmo Marconi, the men behind the telephone and the radio.But what about the people whose inventions we use so often that we forget someone had to think them up in the first place?
A American woman called Margaret Knight was working in a paper bad factory when she noticed how difficult it was to put things into bags.So , she decided to invent a machine that folded and glued paper to make a flat-bottomed bag.She made a lot of sketches of her machine, but before she could actually make it , another employee called Charles Annan stole her idea.After some time companies made her bags under licence
In 1910 a Russian sweet manufacturer called Sam Born emigrated to the USA and set up a business there.One day when he was wonderin how to make the sweet making process more efficient he thought up and idea for a new machine It was called the born sucker machine and its job was to quickly insert the sticks into lollipops
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