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The Woman Who Made a Device
to Help Disabled Veterans Feed
Themselves—and Gave It Away
for Free
World War II nurse Bessie Blount went on to
become an inventor and forensic handwriting
expert
Leila McNeill
(Photo illustration by Shaylyn Esposito; Photos courtesy of Alamy/Walter Oleksy and U.S. Patent
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/woman-who-made…edium=email&utm_term=0_f5693aed98-a1a5a8d517-114324049
