A Victorian woman painted 350 fungi, germinated spores decades before formal science caught up, and got dismissed by Kew Gardens as delusional. She giggled, went home, and drew a rabbit in a blue jacket. Beatrix Potter: spurned mycologist.

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A twelve-year-old redesigned safety for the New England cotton industry. A man stole her work; she buried him in court with blueprints and witnesses over sixteen days. She held 27 patents, co-founded an all-women car company at 74, and died worth $275.05. Margaret Knight, the ghost of American invention.

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