Sally Fox

SALLY FOX 

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We are talking about Sally Fox. She was a revolutionary inventor, because she invented the Fox Fibre. 

Biography:

She was born in 1845 in Southeast Ohio.

She was the second daughter of her parents( Aaron and Mary ). Her father died when she was a child. 

There, "the fox widow, which was how Mary was known, got married again to Alpha Brown, who was recently widowed with two children, one of whom was disable.

The Industrial Revolution produced a new type of loom that needed a new type of cotton and a lot of resistance, so the great variety of cotton of different colors and resistance was the mono culture of white cotton. Sally Fox invented again a little quantity of seed of brown cotton. Fox started to investigate until she created a long fiber colored cotton, that was commercial viable. The invention was called Fox Fibre.

Finally, Sally Fox died on the 7th of February 1913, after living a good life.

Personal opinion:

We think that this invent is so important and the inventor has a lot of merit