She watched a shuttle break loose and impale a worker. Weeks later she had a guard for it, and thirty dollars was beyond her. Barred from every engineering academy in the country, she learned joinery, engraving, carpentry and photography instead. Then 1867: a clockwork arrangement for square bottoms, sketched after long shifts in a Springfield boarding house. A man watched her iron model, copied it, filed first. Sixteen days of hearings later the patent was hers. She died with two hundred and seventy-five dollars and five cents. The bag is still standing in your hands.
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