INVENTOR

Margaret E. Knight

1838 - 1914

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Margaret Eloise Knight (February 14, 1838 – October 12, 1914) was an American inventor, notably of a machine to produce flat-bottomed paper bags. She has been called "the most famous 19th-century woman inventor". She founded the Eastern Paper Bag Company in 1870, creating paper bags for groceries similar in form to the ones that would be used in later generations. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Margaret E. Knight has received more than 327,043 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Margaret E. Knight is the 375th most popular inventor (down from 328th in 2019), the 8,612th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,985th in 2019) and the 102nd most popular American Inventor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 330k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Margaret E. Knights by language

Over the past year Margaret E. Knight has had the most page views in the with 42,853 views, followed by Spanish (3,638), and French (3,381). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Japanese (123.25%), Afrikaans (103.43%), and English (35.95%)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Margaret E. Knight ranks 375 out of 426. Before her are Kirkpatrick Macmillan, Henry J. Kaiser, Per Georg Scheutz, Frank Piasecki, Andrew Viterbi, and Arunachalam Muruganantham. After her are Alfred Carlton Gilbert, William Fothergill Cooke, Karl Jatho, Wordsworth Donisthorpe, Harold Eugene Edgerton, and Kálmán Tihanyi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Margaret E. Knight ranks 100. Before her are General Tom Thumb, Marc Delafontaine, Oskar Gripenberg, John Morley, Octavia Hill, and John Wanamaker. After her are Henry Hobson Richardson, Joseph F. Smith, Shah Jahan Begum of Bhopal, and Walter Buller. Among people deceased in 1914, Margaret E. Knight ranks 127. Before her are John Philip Holland, Daniel De Leon, Jakub Arbes, Gijsbert van Tienhoven, Carl Goßler, and Joan Röell. After her are Louis Bach, Wordsworth Donisthorpe, Ida Freund, Morton Betts, Johannes Weiss, and Edward S. Holden.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Margaret E. Knight ranks 8,612 out of 20,380. Before her are Joseph P. Allen (1937), Ben Lyon (1901), Joseph Ruben (1950), Richard LeParmentier (1946), Jamie Farr (1934), and Karen Pence (1957). After her are Michael Shermer (1954), Richard Lewis (1947), David Patterson (1947), Adrian Pasdar (1965), Dack Rambo (1941), and Matt Czuchry (1977).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Margaret E. Knight ranks 102. Before her are George Stibitz (1904), Elizabeth Holmes (1984), Amar Bose (1929), Lewis Howard Latimer (1848), Henry J. Kaiser (1882), and Frank Piasecki (1919). After her are Alfred Carlton Gilbert (1884), Harold Eugene Edgerton (1903), Elmer Ambrose Sperry (1860), Herbert E. Ives (1882), Robert S. Langer (1948), and Mark Rober (1980).

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