PAPERCLIP

Paper clip or clips is a tool for to unify the two sheets of paper or more based on the principle of pressure. Paper can be easily clamped with removable clip again. The use of a clip is more practical than using glue or staple.

shape

Clips are usually in the form of a wire that is bent into shapes like triangle, oval, or like a butterfly. Materials used biasanyalogam but sometimes there are also clips made of plastic.

history

The first patent for a paper clip comes from the second half of the 19th century. Creator of the first wire clip never registered a patent for his invention. But the clip with the form as it is now usually found may have been manufactured in the United Kingdom since 1890 in a factory called "The Gem Manufacturing Company". Machines for making clips Gem factory model was patented in 1899 by William Middlebrook and Robert Sherman of Waterbury, Connecticut.

Until now, English to clip Gem factory model is a "gem clips". In Swedish clip even just referred to as the "gem". People of Byzantine probably the creator of the first clip paper clip. Clip the Byzantines made of brass so it is too expensive to produce in large quantities and are only used for important documents stapled empire.

A Norwegian inventor named Johan Vaaler successfully patented clip paper clip creation, but some consider it less practical. Some experts are even more praise artificial clips Norway and consider it better than a product that never existed. Johan Vaaler patented clip never mass produced due to existing British businessman who made the clip is more practical and will be sold. In most of the literature, the British entrepreneur is often touted as the creator of the model clip gem. But in the minds of most people, the clip is still and always the creations people of Norway.

For this reason, the clip has been used widely in Norway as a symbol of resistance against the German occupation and the local Nazi government during World War II. Norwegian People who oppose the Nazis put the clip on lapel or collar as a symbol of solidarity and unity ("we unite together"). You see a picture of King Haakon VII pin from Norway who is in exile and symbols of resistance that others are prohibited. As a tribute to the services of Johan Vaaler, giant size paper clip clip built near the city of Oslo.

Paperclip was once the largest in the world was built in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada. Development takes 6 months. Weighing 1 ton of steel required to make a 6-meter-high giant clip. In 2001, a giant clip was purchased by a venture capitalist named Maggie Ledwell and now resides in Boston, Massachusetts.

Currently there are hundreds of variations of shape clip, but the original design is still the most popular. Clip the original model is easy to use, easy to remove without tearing paper, and can be stored without-mengkait intertwined with each other.

other uses

In the hands of an expert, who is bent clip can be used as a key breaker. Clip is also a useful tool for users of personal computers danMacintosh. Drawer CD-ROM and diskdrive who do not want to open can be fished with a clip. Palm handheld computer users are also encouraged to use the clip when need to do a reset.

Clip in popular culture

• In Microsoft Office software, there is a personal assistant (Office Assistant) shaped clip named "Clippit" or "Clippy".

• In July 2005, a man named Kyle MacDonald start a website called One Red Paperclip. A red clip that has offered to people in exchange for goods that are not useful, until finally in July 2006 has been obtained for a house.

bibliography

• Henry Petroski, The Evolution of Useful things (1992); ISBN 0-679-74039-2 (a history of the evolution of paper clip design)

• www.id.wikipedia.org