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 From ENC Classroom Calendar:


http://enc.org/features/calendar/unit/0,1819,49,00.shtm

"Some objects are so commonplace that we usually don't give them a second 
thought--except when we need them! And then we think of them in terms of how we can 
use them, not how they were invented. The safety pin is a perfect example. The 
safety pin came into being in 1849. On April 10 of that year, Walter Hunt was 
awarded a patent for what he called a "dress pin,"




--
Sybil Finemel
Library Director MLIS.CIO.
Los Angeles CA
Contributor, lii.org, Librarians'
Index to the Internet
 http://lii.org/
Virtual Reference Desk Volunteer
24/7 Reference Librarian.
sfinemel@comcast.net

"Manners are of more importance
than laws. Manners are what vex
or soothe,
corrupt or purify, exalt or
debase, barbarize or refine us,
by a constant,
steady, uniform, insensible
operation, like that of the air
we breathe in."
Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

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