But a better solution was on its way. In 1899, an inventor in the pin-making capital of Waterbury, Connecticut, patented a "machine for making paper clips." William Middlebrook's patent ...

The Niagara clip—looking charmingly like two clips holding hands—patented ... and unlikely to tear the paper it secured. Once the paper clip was in, the straight pin was out, abandoned to ...

It all started July 12, 2005, when MacDonald offered to trade the now infamous red paper clip in a posting on the Internet message board Craigslist.com. Before long, two young women from Vancouver ...

With a spare $185 laying around and a serious lack of creativity, anyone can waltz into Office Depot and drop some cash on 13,300 paper clips ... centimeters long and 2.25 centimeters wide ...

On his desk, he placed two jars. One was filled with 120 paper clips. The other was empty. This is when the habit started. “Every morning I would start with 120 paper clips in one jar and I ...