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The answer is involved. The origin was probably a clip used on clothing and didn't look like the paperclips we use today. The device we know today as a paperclip was first produced by the Gem company and some still call them Gem clips.
From Wikipedia:
The first patent for the paper clip was awarded to Samuel B. Fay of the United States in 1867.[1] It was designed to fasten labels to garments and textiles, but was also marketed as a paper clip. In 1877 Erlman J. Wright patented the first device explicitly designed as a paper clip, resembling present models. Several new U.S. patents followed during the last decades of the 19th century. The most common type of wire paper clip still in use was never patented, but it was most likely in production in Britain as early as 1890 by "The Gem Manufacturing Company".
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he invented the paper clip
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His name was Ts'ai Lun, and he didn't invent the paper clip, he invented paper.
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To keep papers together
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Paper? China.
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The first patent for a bent wire paper clip was awarded in the United States to Samuel B. Fay
Who actually invented the first ever paper clip?
The first patent for a bent wire paper clip was awarded in the United States to Samuel B. Fay, in 1867.
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The paper clip clings to the the magnet
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The paper clip was not discovered. It was invented.
Why did Marco Polo invent the first paper airplane?
because he wanted to
