The Paper Clip

Shallow dive of the Paper Clip.

What are the made of?
come on…. Quora…. not again…..

Stars are born

Let’s start at the very beginning…..

The universe didn’t just wake up one day and say, “Here’s some iron. Let’s get to work on those paper clips!” First it had to have it’s big bang, and since there wasn’t much to work with, had to start off with stars that were mostly hydrogen and helium.

But anticipating the need for paper clips, the universe got busy making iron – even delaying the formation of galaxies to prioritize the clip.

Then humanity dawdled. But then they started finding iron that had fallen from the skies.

Smelted iron began showing up around 3000 BCE.
[ed. note: not sure how this small fish were involved in iron production. More research is needed.]

The smelt is something of a party animal.

Tuesday

Now set your time machine for Tuesday, November 7th, 1899.

Definite proof that the modern type of paper clip was well known in 1899 at the latest, is the patent granted to William Middlebrook of Waterbury, Connecticut on April 27 of that year for a “Machine for making wire paper clips.” The drawing clearly shows that the product is a perfect clip of the Gem type. – Wikipedia