The
Magnificent Safety Pin
The safety pin was
invention and an improvement of a pin. Both improved and
invented by a man named walter Hunt in New York the year eighteen
forty nine. The safety pin is made out of a small piece
of metal. This metal in which the safety pin was made was a
combination of copper, iron, aluminum, gold, silver, and
platinum. These metal were heated and formed into a small piece
of combined metals. It all started one afternoon.. Walter
Hunt had to think of a way on how to pay back a fifteen dollar
debt. He was sitting at his desk just twisting a piece of wire
while trying to think of how to pay back his debt. He sat
twisting wire for three full hours and realized what he had
created. He called it the safety pin. He although did not
invent the safety pin he just improved it.
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The man whom Hunt had
borrowed the money from was the one who gave him the piece of wire
and told him he would pay him four hundred dollars for all the rights
to whatever Walter Hunt created. In exchange Walter Hunt sold
him the safety pin and all the rights to the device.
for four hundred
dollars. The reason this man wanted Walter Hunt to create
something was because Walter Hunt was a inventor.
This
safety pin wasn't the first pin, but it was the first one with a
clasp to keep from poking.
The first safety pin was
invented by the ancient Greeks, Italians, and Sicilians. It had
two things wrong with it one it had no clasp and second it had no
spring at the end to help put it in place.
The safety
pin was designed to help pin things together. The safety pin is
used for many things kind of like a temporary button, zipper, or it
can hold a rip or babies diapers. The safety pin was very useful to
all people. It will continue to be useful in every day
life. Walter Hunt's improvement was very helpful to all.
All it took to create this device was a piece of wire, imagination,
and a little time.
Credits
"Walter Hunt Inventor of the
Safety Pin." Unknown.
http://inventors.about.com/education/inventors/library/inventors/blhunt_pin.htm
April 7,2000
Wulffson, Don L. The
Invention of Ordinary Things.
New York.:
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1981.
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Francis,C.B. "Wire" The 1995 Grolier Multimedia
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United States of America. 1995