• Francis Wolle (December 17, 1817 in Jacobsburg, Pennsylvania – 1893 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) was an American priest of the Moravian Church, inventor...
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    these envelope-style bags were the subject of three patents issued to Francis Wolle in 1852, 1855, and 1858. Flat-bottomed paper bags, which were sturdier...
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    to mass-produce paper bags was invented in 1852 by Francis Wolle, a Pennsylvania schoolteacher. Wolle and his brother patented the machine and founded the...
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    were first manufactured in Bristol, England, in 1844, and the American Francis Wolle patented a machine for automated bag-making in 1852. Packaging advancements...
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  • Wolf (1724–1784) Woll. — George Buchanan Wollaston (1814–1899) WolleFrancis Wolle (1817–1893) Wollenw. – Hans Wilhelm Wollenweber (1879–1949) Wolley-Dod...
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    Board of Cooperative Educational Services. In 1851, Francis Wolle invented the first bag-making machine, and formed a company that would...
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  • Muriel Sibell Wolle, née Muriel Vincent Sibell (1898 – 1977) was an American artist best known for her drawings and paintings of mining communities in...
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    he and the few other bag manufacturers in the country joined with Francis Wolle, inventor of the first paper bag machine, to form the Union Paper Bag...
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    enrolled in the Bethlehem Female Seminary and trained with Sylvester and Francis Wolle. She continued to sing in church choirs in Brooklyn and Boston. In the...
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    Volume 2 Chlorophyta. Natural History Museum London ISBN 0-565-00981-8 Wolle, Francis (1887). Fresh-water Algae of the United States: Text. Comenius Press...
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