Concerning Pins.
An Industrious correspondent of The Home Journal has been collecting items In relation to pins. He says: Thorns wero originally used in fastening garments together. Pins did not immediately succeed thorns as fasteners, but different appliances wero used, such as hooks, buckles and laces. It was the latter half of the fifteenth century before pins were used in Great Britain. When first manufactured in England, the iron wire of the proper length was filed to a point and the other extremity twisted into a lead. This was a slow process, and 400 or 600 pins was a good day's work for an Bipert hand. The United States has the jredit of inventing the first machine for Baking pins. This was in 1834. The inventor was one Lemuel Wollman Wright.
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Manawatu Herald, 19 February 1898, Page 4
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131Concerning Pins. Manawatu Herald, 19 February 1898, Page 4
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