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Small Inventions, Big Impact

Patented: History of Inventions

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Do You Know Who Invented the Paper Clip?

Do we have a name for whoever came up the classic double loop? Or do we have an origin story? Or some one, perhaps, if there's many, perhaps someone you'd like to nominate us, i'm going to give it to this person. There was a norwegian inventor called johan vale and he claimed to have invented the paper clip round about this time. And yet, we look at his patent, he didn't have the second double loop. So it's like remmang here, read forae. How would a paper clip work without that? Well, some of the early versions, in fact, were a bit rubbish. I'll tel yo about e

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