The Shaker woman who reinvented the circular saw
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In the 2025 musical film The Testament of Ann Lee, a radical 18th-century prophetess who claims to speak with God leads her followers from England to America. Remarkably, this story is based on real history.
Even more remarkably, “Mother Ann’s” loyal followers would go on to invent devices you may have in your home right now, from mail order seed packets to the circular saw. And, like the early leader of their faith, one of the most famous of these inventors was a woman.
Who were the
Even more remarkably, “Mother Ann’s” loyal followers would go on to invent devices you may have in your home right now, from mail order seed packets to the circular saw. And, like the early leader of their faith, one of the most famous of these inventors was a woman.
Who were the
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