Who and why was the thumb tacks orginally invented?
2007-08-02 18:35:35 · 4 answers · asked by darcyaf1 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
It was invented by Edwin Moore around 1900.
2007-08-02 18:42:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The map pin was invented by Edwin Moore around 1900, the year in which he founded the Moore Push-Pin Company.
As far as is currently known, the thumbtack was invented by the clockmaker Johann Kirsten in the year 1903 in the town of Lychen in Uckermark, Germany
He sold the rights to the invention to Otto Lindstedt, a businessman, who received a patent for the thumbtack on 8th January 1904. Lindstedt became a wealthy man while Kirsten, the clockmaker, remained in poverty.
Other sources ascribe the invention of the thumbtack to Austrian factory owner Heinrich Sachs in 1888
2007-08-02 18:43:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Edwin Moore Push Pin
2016-12-17 08:51:38 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good topic, just what I was looking for.
2016-08-24 10:48:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋