We use it all the time, but most of us do not know to cover the history of these useful objects that our tables. Did you know that was the mother of ex-Monkee Mickey Dolenz of the inventor of Liquid Paper? Learn more about the fascinating history of some of your other favorite office supplies.
The forklifts
The earliest known stapler was developed in the eighteenth century in France, at the request of King Louis XV. The name of the genius who made this device useful for the productionGluing paper has not been recorded, but we know that each bracket) (gold, handmade, according to some sources, and embossed with the royal insignia.
The stapler is one of those modest but useful inventions, which hold most of us take for granted. It won again respected, while trapped in 2001, a now-classic episode of "The Office" featured-yes stapler spoilsport assistant coach Gareth Keenan in a bowl of gelatin. As of 2007, "Jell-O handlers" returned 1310 hits on Google.
ThePaper Clip
This practical - albeit sometimes easy to spill - was invented by Samuel B. Fay, an American citizen in 1867. However, the wire clip, distributed widely used today, patented in 1890 by the British Gem Manufacturing. In a classic example of the "genericized trademark, the word" Gem "is now in Swedish used to describe" any paper clip. "
A rival claims history that Herbert Spencer, the Victorian polymath that the term "survival of the fittest" coined "a strong influence on Darwin,and almost got to be a writer George Eliot man (he turned it down), has also the invention of paper clip to his credit. However, there is little evidence to support this story.
The Office
Based (on the Latin word "officium", which meant not only an important requirement for the bureaucratic term, no-fun Romans), but also an official position as a judiciary.
The invention of the modern cabin, however, is one of those ironic stories with which the history ofTechnology is widespread. (Television was originally intended as an educational institution is, for example.) Colorado designer Robert Propst, with Herman Miller, Inc., developed the car as part of a 1965 "Action Office" prototype. It seems that Dean was trying to revive design of the workplace.
The mouse
Stanford designer Douglas Engelbart developed the first mouse in 1963. Engelbart, the mouse was not the slender plastic device that we know today, there are two large gears, could be theis (slowly) upwards or downwards. Today's ball mouse came a few years later - in 1972, when Engelbart colleague Bill English thrown out of these two gears, and replaced it with a single bullet, in a position (to move in any direction and not just straight up and down).
Filing cabinet
African-American inventor Henry Brown patented a fire-safe metal forged "containers for storage and retention of documents," the ancestors of today's filing cabinet "in November 1886. The" vertical file "we allto wait, and had learned to appreciate, twelve years, until Edwin Seibels, an insurance-office workers, taken at the space-saving idea of hanging. (Before that, important business documents are often folded into envelopes and stored in drawers.)
The utility knife
The original X-Acto knife - an ancestor of today's box cutter - was invented by Polish immigrants Sundel Doniger, but we would never have known if his brother-in-law, a Daniel Gluck, the father of U.S. Poet Laureate Louise Gluckdid not allege that the thin metal blades hobbyists might find useful. (Doniger had hoped to market it to the surgeon!)
We do not know exactly who invented the safety knife or box cutter, but it's today's reinvention as Klever Kutter on "Good Morning America featured" and Gizmodo.com. The Klever Kutter is so sure that it approved for air transport of Homeland Security. It makes short work of clamshell packaging, but there is no danger toUsers.
SafeCutters distributes the Klever Kutter and Klever Koncept, two of the safest utility knives available. Klever Kutter virtually eliminates the risk of injury at work, while the permanently protected blade protects packaged products. It was approved by the Department of Homeland Security for the safe carriage by air.
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