The Reader’s Notebook

The Reader’s Notebook: Margaret E. Knight

Morehead State Public Radio | By Greg Jenkins
Published February 14, 2018 at 10:12 AM EST
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Boston Sunday Post in 1912 from newspaperarchive.com

February 14, 2018 -- Margaret Eloise Knight was an American inventor, notably of the flat-bottomed paper bag. She has been called "the most famous 19th-century woman inventor".

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Greg Jenkins
Greg Jenkins has been the Operations Director at MSPR since 1999. Greg is a 1996 graduate of Morehead State University with a BME in Music Education and received a Masters of Science in Industrial Technology in 2008. Greg oversees training, scheduling, and evaluation of the student board operator staff, preparation of the daily traffic logs and serves as weekday classical music host. He is also the webmaster of the MSPR website and maintains MSPR's webstreaming and podcasting.
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