Her Ruby Shoe Moment Lizzie Magee Phillips paced around her home on a winter’s day in January 1936, waiting for the reporters she had phoned to arrive. There were three board games sitting on her kitchen table. Two were versions of a game Lizzie invented, called The Landlord’s Game. The other was a brand new game just released by a … Read More
Margaret Knight
She spent years developing a machine to mass produce flat bottomed grocery bags, only to have her invention stolen from her at the last minute by a man who claimed that no woman could have the knowledge to build something so sophisticated. She took him to court, won, and started a business that changed the way people shop forever. Step into a 1871 Washington D.C. courtroom and meet Margaret Knight…