Margaret Eloise Knight (1838-1914) was a prolific late 19th- and early 20th-century inventor. She made improvements to various devices but is best known as the creator of the flat-bottom bag used in the retail industry.| New England Historical Society
America’s first factory strike happened just 30 years after America’s first successful textile mill started churning out cotton cloth in Pawtucket, R.I.| New England Historical Society