February 18, 1879

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Martin Antonenko

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The invention of the "spider monkey"...

A memorial should be erected to the man in front of every building in which any kind of bureaucracy is exercised!

On February 18, 1879, the American lawyer and recreational inventor George McGill ...



... receives the patent for a device he has developed, which allows you to staple several pages of paper together with a metal clip by simply pressing...:



The "Spider Monkey" (or "Stapler") was invented - to this day an indispensable piece of equipment in every office and also in almost every household...!



A few years earlier - in 1866 - Attorney McGill (who was obviously not working to full capacity as a lawyer) had patented a predecessor device, in which a new piece of wire had to be inserted before each stapling process because it had no magazine....:

 
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