The 10-Year-Old Dropout Bound for Inventor HOF

Bottle Machine Patented Feb. 26, 1895

Source: Library of Congress, “Ten-arm Owens automatic bottle machine,” photo by Lewis Hine, c. 1913. On Feb. 26, 1895, Michael Joseph Owens, who had dropped out of school at the age of 10 to start a glassware apprenticeship, filed a patent for an automated bottle machine.

Source: http://www.Invent.org, National Inventors Hall of Fame photo of Michael Joseph Owens.

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